Suspend drains battery on IBM T42

[Parv]

in message <20051019091858.3ea880bd at localhost>,
wrote Fabian Keil thusly...
>
> Parv <parv at pair.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am using T42 (2373-5TU) and have suspend-to-disk currently
> > disabled in BIOS (i think) & hw.acpi.s4bios is 0.  Given that if
> > i can turn on suspend-to-disk & hw.acpi.s4bios changes to
> > non-zero, how do i go about testing it?
> 
> You have to create a special partition where the "hibernation
> file" can be stored.
> 
> <http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4PESMK>
> 
> Afterwards you should be able to enter S4BIOS with acpiconf -s
> S4OS.

Thanks; will read/try soon.


  - Parv

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