Hello,
The boot-up time for puppy takes quite a while, and I have to set-up a few things manually after it boots. My fan and harddisk are pretty loud, so I like to turn it off when I sleep.
I was wondering, are there any tools similar to Window's "standby mode" or "sleep mode," where the harddisk shuts down? But instead of rebooting, it pops up back where you were? I think it works by saving the RAM to harddisk, which would make puppy ideal for doing this, but I am no expert, so am not sure.
Thanks!
Can Puppy put computer into standby mode?
I am booting from harddrive. I am not worried about reconfiguring, as I know the reason why. The physical connection for my ethernet port is finnicky, so it won't work unless the port is at exactly the right angle. So I need to hold the cable in a precise position for it to read properly. While this works when I configure the ethernet port manually, it doesn't do so well during startup. So I have to wait an extra minute on top of booting for that.
NEWAY, I am not worried about that. What I would like to know is if there is any way to go into "standby" mode or something similar instead of a full shutdown?
NEWAY, I am not worried about that. What I would like to know is if there is any way to go into "standby" mode or something similar instead of a full shutdown?
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I am very new to puppy and linux myself, but is the boot-up slow when you boot from a CD ? My experience is that puppy boots up faster than just about anything; even DSL I think. I don't know about a stand-by mode, and the stand-by key on my IBM thinkpad doesn't work when in Puppy. But when I have Puppy on my lap-top and I haven't used it for a bit, the screen goes blank (screen-save) and the fan only runs when its working; so it looks almost like a stand-by mode until I touch a key again.. Its all running off the RAM, so I presume the power consumption is pretty low during that time, though not as low as stand-by.
Well, I am running puppy off my old desktop. I did a HD install using the three files and boot2pup, because I couldn't get it to boot off my USB (I'll wait until puppy 2 is finalized and play with it again), and because I do not have a CD-rw to make my own puppy CD.
Yes, the screen goes blank after a while of inactivity, however the hard drive keeps going and my fan is LOUD. I don't sleep as well when it is on, so I like to stop my hard drive/fan running at night. I don't like rebooting all the time though, especially as I am still booting from a floppy. One of the benefits of linux is its stability, so that reboots become mostly unecessary...
Any thoughts? Is there a way to shut down my hard drive, turn off my fan, etc from puppy without needing to reboot?
Yes, the screen goes blank after a while of inactivity, however the hard drive keeps going and my fan is LOUD. I don't sleep as well when it is on, so I like to stop my hard drive/fan running at night. I don't like rebooting all the time though, especially as I am still booting from a floppy. One of the benefits of linux is its stability, so that reboots become mostly unecessary...
Any thoughts? Is there a way to shut down my hard drive, turn off my fan, etc from puppy without needing to reboot?
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How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
this might be useful . . .
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/24/1716222
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/24/1716222
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Re: How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
Forgive me for dragging up an old topic, but I tried everything that article said but I couldn't understand how to make it an executable. It kelp telling me to drag a "shell" to use for it.Lobster wrote:this might be useful . . .
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/24/1716222
I think I might have gotten it to think about running a couple of times in the text editor but it always said that I didn't have permission....
Now I'm beginning to wonder if this even works for desktops. Was anyone else able to get this to work??
EDIT: I finally learned how to set permissions! But when I made it executable and ran it I only got a black screen with a blinking light (fan still on). I couldn't even wake it up so I had to manually reboot (I hate having to do that ). So unless I did something wrong-- this doesn't work for desktops!
My laptop goes to sleep just fine. Maybe it's one of those acpi things?
<later> Now I'm not so sure; it might just be the screensaver. But I don't hear the disk either. When I wake it up it is instantaneous, so I think it is just the screensaver.
Actually, Puppy boots so fast, you might as well shut it down when you go to bed...
<later> Now I'm interested in suspend too.
<later> Now I'm not so sure; it might just be the screensaver. But I don't hear the disk either. When I wake it up it is instantaneous, so I think it is just the screensaver.
Actually, Puppy boots so fast, you might as well shut it down when you go to bed...
<later> Now I'm interested in suspend too.