Hello!
In order to use the save to disk feature you must have a special partition
that the BIOS saves the RAM to. If you erased this partition then, well it
won't work... Cfdisk calls my save to disk partition "IBM Thinkpad
hibernation" and it is roughly of the same size as the RAM memory. Try
con
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Joel Kjellgren wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> In order to use the save to disk feature you must have a special partition
> that the BIOS saves the RAM to. If you erased this partition then, well it
> won't work... Cfdisk calls my save to disk partition "IBM Thinkpad
> hibernation" and
>On my system it's the last partition on the disk. You may have to format
>it with a magic DOS utility - on my current system it's PHDISK.EXE.
There is a version for Linux too:
http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
This should work on anything with a reasonably recent Phoenix bios with
the requi
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> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have an old Dell lattitude xpi P100 SD here with Slink installed.
> > Apm is working fine. Apparently there is a suspend to disk facility,
> > as when i press fn-d, i get a bios generated error message, somethiing
> > like "su
> Hello!
>
> In order to use the save to disk feature you must have a special partition
> that the BIOS saves the RAM to. If you erased this partition then, well it
> won't work... Cfdisk calls my save to disk partition "IBM Thinkpad
> hibernation" and it is roughly of the same size as the RAM mem
For people with Lucent winmodems, which don't closely
follows the mailing list of linmodems.org :
There is now a way to use ltmodem.o with kernel 2.2.16 and 2.2.17
(not the hack of using ppp.o from 2.2.14 in 2.2.17 : a more clean
solution, involving patching a .h file and recompile kernel & modu
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > I have an old Dell lattitude xpi P100 SD here with Slink installed.
>> > Apm is working fine. Apparently there is a suspend to disk
>> > facility, as when i press fn-d, i get a
> >> You are probably out of luck as laptop vendors seldom test this
> >> feature under Linux, so it seldom works.
> >
> > Um, actually, that usually happens because save to disk needs some
> > sort of prepared location on disk to put everything... and most people
> > (including many vendors that
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> That may sometimes be the case but, well, not with some of the
>> hardware I have had. Let me assure you that there are, out there,
>> plenty of laptops where the BIOS will hang, hard, trying to suspend
>> to disk, or to restore from it.
>>
http://www.computernetworkservices.4t.com/
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On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Joel Kjellgren wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> In order to use the save to disk feature you must have a special partition
> that the BIOS saves the RAM to. If you erased this partition then, well it
> won't work... Cfdisk calls my save to disk partition "IBM Thinkpad
> hibernation" and
>On my system it's the last partition on the disk. You may have to format
>it with a magic DOS utility - on my current system it's PHDISK.EXE.
There is a version for Linux too:
http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
This should work on anything with a reasonably recent Phoenix bios with
the requ
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> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have an old Dell lattitude xpi P100 SD here with Slink installed.
> > Apm is working fine. Apparently there is a suspend to disk facility,
> > as when i press fn-d, i get a bios generated error message, somethiing
> > like "s
> Hello!
>
> In order to use the save to disk feature you must have a special partition
> that the BIOS saves the RAM to. If you erased this partition then, well it
> won't work... Cfdisk calls my save to disk partition "IBM Thinkpad
> hibernation" and it is roughly of the same size as the RAM me
For people with Lucent winmodems, which don't closely
follows the mailing list of linmodems.org :
There is now a way to use ltmodem.o with kernel 2.2.16 and 2.2.17
(not the hack of using ppp.o from 2.2.14 in 2.2.17 : a more clean
solution, involving patching a .h file and recompile kernel & mod
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > I have an old Dell lattitude xpi P100 SD here with Slink installed.
>> > Apm is working fine. Apparently there is a suspend to disk
>> > facility, as when i press fn-d, i get a
> >> You are probably out of luck as laptop vendors seldom test this
> >> feature under Linux, so it seldom works.
> >
> > Um, actually, that usually happens because save to disk needs some
> > sort of prepared location on disk to put everything... and most people
> > (including many vendors that
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>> That may sometimes be the case but, well, not with some of the
>> hardware I have had. Let me assure you that there are, out there,
>> plenty of laptops where the BIOS will hang, hard, trying to suspend
>> to disk, or to restore from it.
>>
http://www.computernetworkservices.4t.com/
Computer & Network Services.url
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