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@@ -76,15 +76,20 @@ is the time in seconds since 1970-01-01, 00:00 UTC. Use the
Use standby state \fImode\fP. Valid values are \fIstandby\fP,
\fImem\fP, \fIdisk\fP and \fIon\fP (no suspend). The default is
\fIstandby\fP.
+.SH NOTES
+Some PC systems can't currently exit sleep states such as \fImem\fP
+using only the kernel code accessed by this driver.
+They need help from userspace code to make the framebuffer work again.
.SH HISTORY
-The program first appeared as kernel commit message for Linux 2.6 in the GIT
+The program was posted several times on LKML and other lists
+before appearing in kernel commit message for Linux 2.6 in the GIT
commit 87ac84f42a7a580d0dd72ae31d6a5eb4bfe04c6d.
.SH AVAILABILITY
The rtcwake command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
.SH AUTHOR
-The program was written by David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> and improved by
-Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>.
+The program was written by David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
+and improved by Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>.
.SH COPYRIGHT
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms
of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.