Walt Mankowski wrote: > 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.
OK, I stood prepared to be corrected there. My Dell Inspiron 2500 certainly doesn't do it in the BIOS - though I haven't figured out _how_ it does it in Windows (not the same way as others have reported...) > 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. I have that same problem with S1 state. I really need to put the hwclock invocation into acpid > Other than that, suspend-to-disk works great. Now if I could only > tell how much battery life I have left... :-) I haven't tried the ACPI 0329 patch yet, but the previous one can't even insmod acpi_battery, so I have the same problem. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
