On Sun, Aug 07, 2011, David Vasek wrote: > Hi Marco. > > Thanks, but I'm not asking about suspend. apmd -z starts suspend, at least > with my Thinkpad and Compaq, both with Phoenix APM BIOSes. Hibernation is > sometimes called "save to disk" suspend, while suspend is then called > "save to RAM" suspend.
If you have a BIOS option to change suspend to hibernate, it will work, otherwise out of luck. > > Regards, > David > > On Sat, 6 Aug 2011, Marco Peereboom wrote: > >> run apmd at startup then type apm -z to initiate it. Works like a charm >> on most laptops of quality. >> >> On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 12:54:22AM +0200, David Vasek wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> does anybody please know if there is a way to initiate hibernation >>> on APM equipped laptops that support it *from software*? Thanks for >>> answers. >>> >>> Regards, >>> David
