boot times and software suspend (Was: Re: [plug] Distro Day !!!)

Bernard Blackham bernard at blackham.com.au
Thu Jul 10 11:52:45 WST 2003


On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:41:32AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> That's one of the advantages of the Intel desktop boards - stupidly fast 
> POST, usually faster than the monitor can come out of standby. Unless 
> you have a SCSI atapter :-( . My AMD based machine with an Adaptec SCSI 
> card takes /forever/ to get through POST.

Oh, there's a few things that won't work with swsusp at the moment -
SCSI drives, SMP, and the occasional nvidia chipset/driver. (But
seriously, who's laptops have SCSI or SMP? :)

Bernard.

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