Re: Xinerama support

On Tuesday 23 January 2007 07:50, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> On 2007-01-22, Bruce Stephens <bruce+ion-HpBJwjOt1muTY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected]> wrote:
> > (One of our concerns at work was heat from CRTs (perhaps bizarrely,
> > given that we're in south west London, but we really had been in an
> > office where heat was a significant problem, though we aren't,
> > now).)
>
> [And speaking of heat and power consumption, the state of software
> suspend in Linux totally sucks, and yet it's one of the most
> important features I can think of. It sucks having to leave the
> computer on when you don't use it, because it's such a _chore_ to
> bring it and all the programs up again, especially as session
> management support sucks too (and there's no protocol it for terminal
> programs). The hardware suspend support of desktop mobos also tends
> to be poor, PSU fan still keeping humming and so on. (And I haven't
> heard of that good things of the Linux laptop support either.) That's
> one very good reason to use Windows: hibernate. Of course, even
> better would be if the computer could run on _really_ low power,
> shutting down all the fans, not using the disks except very
> infrequently, and so on, but still react to ssh connection attempts
> etc. ...). Well, at least with 'athcool' I managed to make the system
> run 10C cooler most of the time.]
If it wasn't working on my laptop then I wouldn't of started using Linux 
on my laptop. Luckily for me suspend2 works well on my laptops.

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