These choices include:
. Notify??”Puts a warning message onscreen.
. Shutdown??”Turns your machine off.
. Switch to Standby??”This shuts down power to your screen, turns off the fan and
any other system power drains until you power back up. Designed for brief respites,
data is not saved before going to Standby.
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FIGURE 4.10 Edit Schemes lets you play with your power management settings.
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FIGURE 4.9 YaST offers several power management schemes, or you can adjust it your own
way or even make your own.
. Suspend??”Two choices here. Suspend to Disk protects your data most effectively, but
takes longer to revive than Suspending to RAM. Suspending to RAM recovers
quickly, but if you happen to run out of power while you are suspended to RAM,
you could lose unsaved data on the screen.
. Ignore??”Carries on blithely as before.
Click Next to confirm your changes. Select the Power Scheme you want to use going
forward, and click Finish to apply these settings.
Portable PC Issues
Laptop computers are finicky beasts with many proprietary bits of hardware and software.
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