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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:31:38 -0400
From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
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Subject: Re: dell i5000e & apm
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this was, on the fateful occasion around Aug 15 13:31 -0400,
sent by David Wolfskill                                              
>
> >Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:04:12 -0400
> >From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
> 
...
> >last time i tried, when dell issued an bios-apm update, around may 6 
> >2001 w/ then current 4-stable version, the exercise was in futility.
> 
> OK; I finally got a chance to try this on my laptop (which is quite
> similar to a Dell I5000e), and it seems to work just fine:  I used
> Fn+Esc to suspend (to RAM; I don't have suspend-to-disk set up), waited
> a while, then tapped the power button to wake it up.  I didn't even need
> to do anything with Fn+F8.
 
why would you use Fn+f8? is it used be some necessary trickery?

> This is on:
> FreeBSD m147.whistle.com 4.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-PRERELEASE #147: Wed Aug 15 06:38:39 PDT 2001

i just updated my sources yesterday, i will try soon.

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