Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:20:02 -0800
From:      Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@clicknet.com>, "C. Randolph Philipp" <cphilipp@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov>, FreeBSD-mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Where is the Latest FAQ? 
Message-ID:  <199802261920.LAA09059@tnt.isi.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:16:04 MST." <199802261916.MAA28136@mt.sri.com> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----


Nate Williams wrote:
>> >APM bios works well with FreeBSD APM support and suspends/resumes very
>> >well (via commands or by closing the lid.) I keep it in suspend to RAM
>> >because the battery lasts so damn long (esp when you have the second one
>> >in) that I didn't want to give up the HD space ;)
>> 
>> I didn't realize that it was possible to configure FreeBSD to suspend
>> to disk.
>
>Who said anything about suspend to disk?  (This feature is part of the
>BIOS, and unless you have hardware docs you can't do it 'portably'.)

Sean said "suspend to RAM" and implied that the only thing preventing
him from suspend to disk was not using space.

It looks like I'd have to properly partition my hard disk to suspend
to it, and I don't know (and probably can't easily guess) the
appropriate parameters of the suspend-to-disk partition.

So it sounds like I keep suspending to memory.


- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ted Faber                                                faber@isi.edu
USC/ISI Computer Scientist                   http://www.isi.edu/~faber
(310) 822-1511 x190      PGP Key: http://www.isi.edu/~faber/pubkey.asc



-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.2

iQCVAwUBNPXAYIb4eisfQ5rpAQHm3QQArzXntQJkOMVY+sMRmNKJFQTw3sKGDY8N
zld1XUuOpybu8zuKTwqDNcmaDa/tHjJO/LasNjl7SRBt1RJrH2Hawr3xcivJzBVK
4KZuE4OWedu/VSyLbhbdu+ULtMHNOhZ+Ibq4N0acnxa7SFToohoX/yKlsA2HyagA
m1MJpwTqXKE=
=Liyc
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199802261920.LAA09059>