Maybe I’ll make a thrilling serial out of my suspend experiences. “S3: Miami: Drivers and BIOS Division: Data Loss Prevention Unit”, maybe.
The first episode would be where I used suspend and had a mixed bag of results. Things seem to stop and start alright, but I have this fan problem… In Windows, the fan would often come on full blast and stay on after resuming, and I had a little workaround ritual where I’d select a different “power profile” from this applet that Toshiba pre-installed, then switch back, and it would go back to normal. I have similar symptoms under Ubuntu, but no workaround ritual developed yet. In the process of looking at that, I see that the fan doesn’t always kick in when the machine is running hard, which worries me a little that the thermal management is out of whack.
I’m also getting this notification when I resume that my machine could not suspend. Which is surprising, when coming out of resume, because I was under the impression that ‘to resume’ is something an entity can do only when it had, indeed, suspended. Hopefully that’s just spurious, rather than indicating some hidden problem.
So, yeah, I’m gonna need a scriptwriter to punch this up a little. Car wrecks, babies giggling, lottery winners who lose their husbands to their step-daughters, that kind of thing.