IBM T30 and suspend/resume capability

[Fabian Keil]

Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:29:25 -0400
> Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
> 
> >  set up hibernation
> > (create hidden FAT32 and use tphdisk to write a save2disk.bin that's
> > bigger than ram+video+sum), and then Fn-F12 would write ram to disk
> > and power off. 

> nice one :) do u know if this works for other Thinkpad models? I'm on a much
> newer  Z60m here - acpi works fine, suspend is much more reliable after I wrote
> my own suspend script called by devd, but hibernation is something I'd be
> interested in.

AFAIK there are two types of suspend to disk, one that heavily depends
on the BIOS to do the work and one that doesn't. FreeBSD currently only
supports the first one while modern laptops usually only support the second.

BTW: what exactly does your devd script do?

Fabian
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