Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 11:02:37 -0700 From: Ben Lovett <blovett@bsdguru.com> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and suspend-to-disk Message-ID: <20010703110237.A676@bsdguru.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010704024932.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 02:49:32AM %2B0930 References: <20010703101035.A1027@bsdguru.com> <XFMail.20010704024932.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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I believe I saw Daniel O'Connor (doconnor@gsoft.com.au) write this: > Well.. under Windows the s2d functionality is provided by Windows itself using > ACPI.. > FreeBSD doesn't do this yet (for lo it is very difficult) :( > There is apparently a way to get the BIOS to do suspend (Fn+A) to a seperate > partition, but I haven't got it to work :( > > I found the tools in question by looking here -> > > http://www.usmedia.nl/joel/inspiron.html > > I've got the A10 BIOS (so now I can suspend to ram and everything comes back > except USB [the mixer volumes are reset to 0 though]) but no suspend to disk :( > The BIOS always reports that there is no partition or it is incompatible with > this BIOS (depending on the method I try). > > If you have no luck finding the tool let me know any I'll send it to you. Just setup my partition, and I get a message saying that the BIOS can't find a compatible partition.. grrrrr Anyone else have some ideas? TIA -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ben Lovett printf("Hello world!); blovett@bsdguru.com return 0; -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Press every key to continue. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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