[ltp] Fresh install of SuSE 9.3 on X30, stick with APM or need toconsider ACPI?

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

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On Thu, 26 May 2005 09:14, John Shane wrote:

> Will I be missing something significant if I=20
> stick with APM instead of using ACPI?

The other way around, perhaps.

My T21 uses APM, and whether I suspend to RAM or hard disk, it asks for my=
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password on restore.

My T42 is set up with ACPI & swsusp2.  Restore from disk goes through norma=
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boot, and it wants the password.  Restore from RAM goes right to a logged i=
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system.  In X my screensaver password activates, but there's nothing to sto=
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access to any console sessions I'm using.

I haven't looked into daemons that log out stale console sessions, and I'll=
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bet that's still not as good protection as a BIOS based password.

There's a recent thread here that hard disk passwords are expensive to crac=
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so that BIOS based disk password provides some good protection.

So, do you have critical data on your system?  Is it a company laptop, for=
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instance?

Hopefully your laptop won't be stolen, but if it is...Identify theft?  Acco=
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information?

Cheers,
Bret

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