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LinuxCertified LC2210D Laptop Review
Provataki writes "OSNews posted a review of the LinuxCertified LC2210D laptop, running the latest Ubuntu. The laptop delivers pretty well and it has modern characteristics for a fair price but it's not without its small configuration issues. It is also another proof that Linux's ACPI sleep support does not work on most laptops out there, even the ones picked for best compatibility with Linux."
This isn't true for the majority of semi-decent hardware. Most resume failures are entirely down to Linux not resuming the IDE controller properly, with most of the remainder being video and i8042 related.
I couldn't agree more. I have a Gateway 7405GX that is completely supported EXCEPT for sleep (well, also the Broadcom wireless [ndiswrapper works, tho, even in 64-bit mode] and maybe the various memory card readers, which I never tested since I don't use any).
In all my fiddling with various Ubuntu and SUSE 9.3 installs I've only seen this laptop wake up and actually work properly once, and that was apparently just a fortunate accident since I couldn't reproduce it.
I'd LOVE to use Linux on this machine, but having to shutdown every time I want to move the thing more than a few feet is just too tedious. It destroys the whole point of having a mobile computer.
In XP I can just close the lid, drive wherever, open the lid and keep going where I left off. XP's hibernate is fantastic in that regard, too, since you can hibernate and come backs DAYS later and pick up exactly where you left off without having to worry about the gradual dying of the battery while the machine sleeps.
The day I can get even close to that kind of convenience while running Linux is the day I blow the XP install away for good. I'm not going to hold my breath, though, since I've been waiting for YEARS for proper Linux laptop support and the pace of improvement seems glacial.
In the past turned on the suspend-to-ram feature, it worked most of the time, but didn't resume may be one out of 10 times. I did more extensive research on this topic, and found that while suspend-to-ram can be made to work on many laptops, it is not very solid. So, now I am somewhat sceptical when someone says suspend-to-ram is working on their laptops, because I want to be able to resume my laptop every single time.
In any case, suspend-to-disk is fast enough for me, and it does imply complete power-off of the system.