Dell i7500 & Suspend to Disk

[Timothy Luoma]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:56:02 +0100, Bruce M Simpson <bms at spc.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:32:08PM -0400, Timothy Luoma wrote:
>> I was just thinking about the Dell's "Suspend to Disk" (I think AKA
>> "Hibernation" in Windows).  It's a feature I use all the time.  Is there
>> anything special that I need to do to be able to use it in FreeBSD?  (I 
>> am assuming that I <em>can</em> use it in FreeBSD)
>
> That's a resounding 'depends'. APM suspend-to-disk is known to work. ACPI
> suspend-to-disk is a different kettle of fish. Both Linux and the Windows
> ACPI HAL have been munged in interesting ways to make this possible. For
> us, we only do it if the BIOS supports it (see S4BIOS) right now.


Am I more likely to get it working with 5.x rather than 4.x or does it 
matter?

Thanks

TjL


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