Re: Laptop recommendations for 6.x

David Gilbert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Nik" == Nik Clayton <[email protected]> writes:

Nik> Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>> * Suspend to disk doesn't work
>>  And is not going to until someone writes the suspend to disk
>> software for FreeBSD. Very few newer laptops do BIOS based suspend
>> to disk. It's moved to the OS in Windows, so manufacturers don't
>> waste money doing it any other way.

Nik> When you say "Very few", do you have a list of those, know where
Nik> I could find one, or know what I should be looking for (is there
Nik> a particular standard, for example, that the laptop needs to
Nik> support?).

FreeBSD needs to grow a suspend/resume to/from disk.

Dave.

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