From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 2 19:50:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BD0116A4CE for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 19:50:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BDF743FE1 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 19:50:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hB33oehk072899; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 14:20:45 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Melvyn Sopacua , current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 14:20:39 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <3FCBB91E.7000505@gmx.net> <200312021017.22442.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200312021220.49095.freebsd-current@webteckies.org> In-Reply-To: <200312021220.49095.freebsd-current@webteckies.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312031420.39542.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -4.4 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Subject: Re: ACPI results Inspiron 8000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 03:50:51 -0000 On Tuesday 02 December 2003 21:50, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > > I used to suspend to disk in 4.x after creating the S2D partition with > > the floppy image from Dell, however I don't any more.. > > I kept the Dell partition intact. Or does it need special formatting? If it's a newish laptop then that partition has diag tools on it, not a suspend to disk partition. My laptop didn't come with a S2D partition because WinME does it itself - ie I'd say the S2D method is deprecated. > > Basically it takes so long to suspend and resume with a decent amount of > > memory (256Mb+) that it's not worth it - most of my applications are > > smart enough to save state when they quit :) > Hmm, since I have 512 and might upgrade to 1G of memory, I guess I don't > need it either :). But it should error out and resume normal powerstate if > for whatever reason suspension does not work. It should not reboot. Sure thing.. Got patches? :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5