> I have been trying to get hibernation mode working on several >different laptops of different brands (IBM, Toshiba), and unfortunately >there is (apparently) no way to have it work under linux. I expect some >messy APM BIOS hook into m$-win, for which I have (yet) not found any >documentation/specification. Moreover, I have been asking some IBM people >who told be that the hibernation file must be located on a DOS partition, >and that it cannot be recognized (I am not sure of it, the explanation >was very inaccurate) when not running DOS.
My old Thinkpad (380XD) hibernates perfectly with Linux. All you do is boot DOS from /dev/hda1 and run "ps2 hibernate C:" (or whatever the command is), then it just works. Of course /dev/hda1 has to be big enough to have a file the size of RAM + 4M... My new Thinkpad 600E currently doesn't have hibernation because PS2.EXE crashes... >For short, the built-in "hibernation mode" in our laptops is, in many >cases, quite unuseable with Linux. (Any success with other models/brands >would be appreciated, I'd really like to know if there are any) I haven't heard a confirmed report of any new laptops having problems with this apart from situations such as with mine (where it's a problem of the laptop configuration). -- Electronic information tampers with your soul.
