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Re:Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help by zymhan on Monday March 25, 2019 @04:14PM (#19486343)
ACPI has been the bane of Linux on laptops for two decades.

If I can't trust that my laptop will go to sleep when I shut the lid and put it in my bag, it's not useful as a portable device.

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Re:Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help by andrewshadura on Monday March 25, 2019 @04:37PM (#19486541)
I haven’t had issues with suspend since 2009.
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Re:Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help by war1025 on Monday March 25, 2019 @05:03PM (#19486714)
There was an issue with hibernate memory mapping that broke hibernate on my work Thinkpad for the first year or two that I had it.

Then at some point they fixed the issue, which if I remember correctly came down to "stop trying to be fancy and just do the straight-forward thing, which is correct". And since then I've had no issues.

I'm unclear why I had an issue with the Thinkpad but never had issues with any of the 5 or so Dell Inspirons I've had over the years.

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Re:Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help by penagwin on Monday March 25, 2019 @04:56PM (#19486674)
As a counter point, I've had repeated issues with my several different laptops in the last few years with them not going to sleep (2015~2018?). I have a new laptop now that I primarily run windows on now...
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Re:Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help by int_19h on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @02:31AM (#19489676)
As usual, it all depends on how lucky you get with your hardware, unless you specifically buy a Linux laptop.
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Re:Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help by noelsusman on Monday March 25, 2019 @06:46PM (#19487469)
FWIW my Dell Windows laptop at work can't accomplish this correctly either.
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Re:Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help by mikelpr on Monday March 25, 2019 @08:11PM (#19488022)
my retina MBP 15" 2012 would wake up with the lid closed on macOS. prolly hardware related and still linux acpi should get to 100 but I think it's gotten good
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Re:Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help by saagarjha on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @02:07AM (#19489599)
Are you sure this wasn't just Power Nap?
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Re:Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help by zymhan on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:15AM (#19492031)
To be fair you shouldn't notice the laptop waking up for power nap, if I'm not mistaken.
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