On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, I wrote:
> On 13 Oct 2002, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:
> >
> > On my Latitude L400 the standby (Fn+Suspend) works fully
> >
> > The Suspend/Hibernat (Fn+A) doesn't doesn't work at all.
>
> To enable the apm suspend-to-disk function (Fn+A), you need to prepare a
> special partition on your hard disk using a (Windows-only, IIRC) utility
> available from Dell. Look for "suspend to disk" in the Dell Knowledge
> Base for more information.
The other thing you need to make sure to do to make suspend-to-disk work
is that the Linux boot loader (lilo or grub) must be installed in the
partition containing /boot (and you need to mark tht partition active).
Installing the boot loader in the MBR is incompatible with
suspend-to-disk.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
