On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 03:06:56PM -0500, Derek Broughton wrote: > Except that, afaik, BIOS suspend-to-disk simply isn't a possibility if > you have an ACPI bios
That's not completely true. I have a Compaq Presario 1700, ACPI only.
I dual-boot between Win 98 and Debian potato. I'm still running a
2.2.* kernel so I don't have ACPI support in Linux, although I of
course do in Windows.
Surprisingly, suspend-to-disk mostly works for me under Linux, with
two minor exceptions:
1. I have to be out at the console when I hit the key. If I'm in X,
the box hangs. I can be running X, just need to Ctrl-Alt-F* to a
console window first.
2. It doesn't reset the time when it starts back up. I've gotten
into the habit of running "hwclock --hctosys" as soon as I
restart.
Other than that, suspend-to-disk works great. Now if I could only
tell how much battery life I have left... :-)
Walt
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