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For example to test hibernate you could do something like...
# powermgr_hibernate task=validate_hardware
# powermgr_hibernate task=try_sleep
# powermgr_hibernate task=verify_wakeup

The validate_hardware might do something magical to indicate if the hardware was hooked up correctly (i.e. CAN the motherboard even sleep?)

try_sleep might attempt to sleep the cpu then after 5 seconds it would auto wakeup (can the CPU sleep, can the HDD sleep, can it wake back up)

verify_wakeup might sleep the computer and then wait for you to shake the mouse, or press a key to prove that it can read input when it is sleeping.

Each of these tasks are allowed to hang. This is for debug and the fact that try_sleep hangs could provide very interesting information.

Each of these tasks would also create log files as it goes through each step so that you can see that try_sleep was able to sleep and wake up the CPU, but not able to wake up the harddrive. etc.

This list of "mini test programs" could then be published on the ubuntu website. So that if you were having a problem with hibernate or suspend functionality, us users could give you developers more useful information than "it hangs and requires a power cycle"


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I have spent may a day trying to configure wireless cards on Ubuntu, often without much luck!

Please also deliver more support for what they are both wireless PCI cards and USB, as it is currently very low base of drivers for such devices

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Dell is offering new models based on Ubuntu (recently the XPS M1330 in a few countries), proof that the business model makes sense.

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