Dec 112011
While proctoring my students’ final I’ve been tweaking the system a bit (after finally getting on UT’s Restricted network) and now I’m going to try to get ACPI up and running so I can suspend to disk instead of shutting down every time the computer needs to be moved. Gentoo is as accommodating as ever with their guides.
My goal is that the computer will enter a hibernate-like state when the lid is closed.
I’m trying out Uswsusp instead of TuxOnIce because I don’t want to use a different kernel and I like the idea of keeping everything in user space, as described on this page.
I have had to add static-libs to my USE flags, and they’re getting a little long. Ah well.
Adding static-libs to your USE flags globally (in make.conf) is a really bad idea. Better to enable it on a case-by-case basis as needed (in /etc/portage/package.use).
Hey! Sorry for staying quiet for so long, but the computer suffered a terminal hardware failure just before your comment. Anyway, yes! You are right. For some reason I couldn’t ever remember where the file for package specific settings was, but once I did that’s where the changes went and will go (fingers crossed) on the new machine.
Thanks!