[PLUG] Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Asus S62FP Laptop

[Richard C. Steffens]

On 11/11/2011 09:11 PM, Fred James wrote:
> That is "hibernate", isn't it?  ... close the lid and the box goes into
> hibernate mode until opened again?  Sometimes there is a hibernate
> button as well ... sometimes called sleep?
> Well, I am not going to be much help ... sorry ... when I had laptops
> (Red Hat or Mandriva/Mandrake), hibernate never worked for me either.  I
> should be interested to hear (and to hear how) if anyone has ever gotten
> that to work in Linux.

It works fine on my Acer Aspire running Ubuntu 10.04. I have to push the 
power button, but it responds to it as if it were a toggle on a sleep 
button. It comes back up to faster than the same machine running XP, 
too. (No surprise there.)

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Regards,

Dick Steffens