From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jan 14 23:10:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C88637B401; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:10:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F86443E4A; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:10:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0F7ATiX007650; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:40:36 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) X-Authentication-Warning: cain.gsoft.com.au: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] claimed to be [127.0.0.1] Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 and Dell notebooks From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Lars Eggert Cc: Nicholas Esborn , Kirill Bezzubets , Nate Lawson , current@FreeBSD.ORG, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3E25063F.9000508@isi.edu> References: <3E248251.4050204@isi.edu> <20030115002356.GA87114@solaris.ru> <20030115065045.GA45556@carbon.berkeley.netdot.net> <3E25063F.9000508@isi.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1042614629.13691.116.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 15 Jan 2003 17:40:29 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 17:27, Lars Eggert wrote: > With a partition created by Dell's make-suspend-partition floppy, I > could suspend and resume with save-to-disk on 4.6. (I have since trashed > the partition, because I needed its partition table slot.) So there is > some hope this might work on -current also. Provided you stick to APM.. The suspend to disk thing is only available with APM - an ACPI OS is supposed to do all of that stuff without help from the BIOS. Unfortunately no one has written suspend to disk support for FreeBSD yet :( -- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message