Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 17:14:08 GMT From: "Greg Smith" <gregsmith59@hotmail.com> To: nik@freebsd.org Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reflections on the Sony Vaio F709 (F590K ?) Message-ID: <F140Viaaskjeo4lB4Bw00005548@hotmail.com>
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Nik, I have had very good luck with Phoenix Suspend to Disk on 3 different machines. The phdisk.exe was always smart enough to create the correct partition on my HD as long as there was enough free space, and to complain if there wasn't enough free space. [translate partition to slice if you wish] The suspend to disk has always used a separate partition on my machines, of a separate type which the BIOS recognizes. You might check for the existence of this separate partition. If it is not there the BIOS will just do nothing, or maybe beep, when you attempt to suspend to disk. On my dual-boot win95/freebsd machine I have the following: PMtype PM# SIdesc SItype SIsub fat32 B fat 2 11 freebsd/386 a5 freebsd 3 165 savetodisk a0 unknown 1 160 (where PM is PartitionMagic and SI is SysInstall) I got my HD this way by: 1) defrag win95 2) shrink win95 partition with PartitionMagic 3) install FreeBSD into freed up space >First off, suspend to disk doesn't work. : >The 709 didn't have this partition when I received it. In addition, the >first time I booted it up (it had Windows pre-installed) it started up >PHDISK.EXE which informed me that it was prepping the suspend file. I >suspect that these machines now expect to be able to write to a file on >a FAT partition somewhere in order to successfully suspend. While this >does gain you back some disk space (on the order of whatever the maximum >physical memory you can install in to the machine), it means you can't >suspend to disk any more :-( > >Related to this, I can no longer press Fn+F2 to get a display of the >remaining battery life. On the F270 this bought up a graphic display >showing the life remaining, and whether or not it was running off AC >power. That feature's now gone. > >I'm hypothesising, but I suspect Fn+F2 is now supposed to trigger the OS >to do it's own display. When I ran Windows on the F270 it intercepted >the request and put up its own graphical display instead. > Fn+F2 [status] or Fn+F5 [pm] both pull up the little "window" showing battery life on my Winbook FX under FreeBSD 4.1R; Fn+F4 [suspend] does suspend to disk under FreeBSD 4.1R; FWIW. My machine has Phoenix NoteBIOS 4.0 from 1997. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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