s2ram (Was: Re: Request for comments: Laptop improvements)

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Donnerstag, den 15.06.2006, 02:12 -0400 schrieb Dave Jones:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:27:46AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>  > Am Mittwoch, den 14.06.2006, 17:59 +0200 schrieb Phil Knirsch:
>  > > [...]
>  > > This includes 
>  > > things like suspend/hibernate and resume, docking stations and 
>  > > powersaving just to name a few.
>  > > [...]
>  > This reminds me: Are there any plans to use s2ram in Fedora?
> If anywhere, that magic really belongs in HAL.
> The ubuntu folks seem to agree.

That's okay for me. Are there any efforts in that direction already?
gnome-power-manager perhaps?

BTW, managing whitelists and "lists with required workarounds for
certain laptops" really sounds like something to me that needs to be
handled somewhere "upstream" -- otherwise each distro would have to
manage its own lists and that wastes a lot of man-power without a real
benefit afaics... 

CU
thl