Suspend-to-disk

Vladimir Egorin vladimir at math.uic.edu
Fri Dec 3 12:26:39 PST 2004


On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:43:55AM +0100, Carsten Zimmermann wrote:
	> Hello Karsten,
	> 
	> while there's no direct support for software STD, you can still use
	> hardware STD if your BIOS supports it (= `sysctl hw.acpi.s4bios` is
	> set to "1". You can then std with `acpiconf -s 4`. 
	> 
	> Refer to you BIOS documentation on how to configure a STD partition. My
	> laptop runs with a Phoenix BIOS und uses a tool called "HDPREP(EZ)" for
	> std partiotion creation. Unfortunately I have not got it running so far
	> :(

This won't work on a thinkpad t23 under acpi (apm is fine) --
the half-moon light starts blinking, and the machine hangs.

-- 
Vladimir


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