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From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: sleep mode and suspend to disk on VAIO PCG-550FX
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 05:04:01PM -0400, Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> probably said:
> > I'm wondering how I can put my freshly-donated (thanks Michael!)
> > VIA PCG-550FX into sleep mode and how to suspend it to disk.
> > I had phdisk.exe format a special partition for that, but how
> > does one trigger a suspend? Fn keystrokes just say 'beep' and
> > nothing else ;)
> 
> Did you put the special partition within the first 8gb of the disk ?
> It'll fail otherwise.

It only has a 4G disk so that cannot be the problem ;)

> If the Fn-Fwhatever keys don't work you may have a newer model that
> doesn't do APM at all (one of the reasons I stopped buying vaios) and

Well, this is an old one, P266 with 64MB. apm seems to work OK.
It reports battery status etc just fine.

> will have to use the (likely dodgy) ACPI support.
> 
> zzz should suspend the machine with apm, at least.

Well:

vaio# zzz
zzz: ioctl(APMIO_SUSPEND): Invalid argument

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