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David van Kuijk wrote:
> Thanks for the responses so far.
> 
> I would be happy with S3. I am however a little confused about the
> abilities of  my server as reported by sysctl hw.acpi.
> 
> As commented below this line suggests that no other states than S4/S5
> are supported:
> hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state: S4 S5
> 
> But this is also listed:
> hw.acpi.standby_state: S1
> hw.acpi.suspend_state: S3
> 
> Are these last two overridden by the first, meaning that S3 is not
> available from my BIOS???

Those are just the defaults for standby and suspend, respectively. Your
BIOS only supports S4 (as is common for a lot of desktops).

-Nate