Yep, so I really got tired of turning the Vaio on and off over and over again when I needed to be doing something other than playing with my new Puppy. So, I broke down and downloaded/installed Acpitool.
Acpitool is a command line tool that gives you some awesome power management capabilities, one of which is a suspend function. Just pull up the terminal, type in 'acpitool --suspend' (or 'acpitool - s'), and voila! The computer snoozes. Works like a charm on the Vaio. I think I may download this to my various Puppy thumb drive setups and give it a whirl.
(I may even be sneaky and try it on the old Thinkpad R40 that was giving me so much trouble a while back. It's been sidelined with the infamous "old Thinkpad sleeping sickness" problem. Maybe Acpitool can help...)
Of course, Acpitool has a myriad of functions, and I haven't even begun to think about how to use it. I'm going to go over the help page again and again to get it through my head on how it works and what it can do.
As for a followup on Puppy Precise on the Vaio, well... Wow. It's been flawless. I've been using it all day, on and off, for long periods and short. Mail, web browsing, blogging, heavy YouTube-ing... It's taken it all in stride. And I still, even as late as it is, have a decent charge on the battery. Granted, I wouldn't want to do intense, day-long word processing or spreadsheeting on the 10" screen. But for casual use... This one's a winner.
To be honest, on this machine, Puppy Precise has ran circles around Lubuntu. I'm glad I made the decision to do the install.
I'm happy. It's been a good evening...
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