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SteamOS Has Dropped Support For Suspend

Posted by samzenpus on from the keep-playing dept.

jones_supa writes: As pointed out by a Redditor, it seems that suspending the machine is not officially supported by SteamOS anymore. A SteamOS user opened a bug report due to his controllers being unresponsive after a suspend cycle. To this, a Valve engineer bluntly reported that "suspend is no longer supported". He further explained the issue by saying that given the state of hardware and software support throughout the graphics stack on Linux, the team didn't think that they could make the feature work reliably.

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  1. Is systemd involved at all? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is systemd involved at all with these problems?

    1. Re:Is systemd involved at all? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I can tell you're lying, systemd-shill.

    2. Re: Is systemd involved at all? by KGIII · · Score: 1, Funny

      In Linux? Your wireless controller will work if you have the DVORAK international (with null keys) keyboard layout and only then. You will then proceed to learn the new keyboard layout because, fuck it, that's why! It will be mysteriously fixed in a new version but you won't know and you will decry all those who do not use that keyboard layout. And you will feel good about it.

      Give it a shot. Worst case is you break something and have to fix it. Oh no! Not like we haven't done that before. You might even learn something new. It may not be valuable but it has it's finer points.

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      "So long and thanks for all the fish."
  2. Re:Windows only says "Sleep" by Khyber · · Score: 3, Funny

    Swapfile, of course. Do you not know the basics of modern OS architecture?

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    Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
  3. Re:Fragmentation... by thegarbz · · Score: 3, Funny

    The last time Windows suspend didn't work reliably for me I was using Windows ME.

    The last time Linux suspend didn't work reliably for me I was using Ubuntu 15.04.

    Don't go touch wood, go throw your entire body on it and praise whoever you worship for you lucky and successful life. Suspend and hibernation support is a messy clusterfuck of standards which were never implemented correctly supported by device models that never considered going to sleep as a design consideration.