Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:04:27 -0400 From: Timothy Luoma <freebsd@tntluoma.com> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell i7500 & Suspend to Disk Message-ID: <oprvxbppp1nva4ua@smtpx.operamail.com> In-Reply-To: <20030922205602.GC25551@saboteur.dek.spc.org> References: <oprvw1vuuxnva4ua@smtpx.operamail.com> <20030922205602.GC25551@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:56:02 +0100, Bruce M Simpson <bms@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 -- <del>Toying with the idea of putting</del> Planning to install FreeBSD <ins>4.8-RELEASE</ins> on a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop
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