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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)=1B to a se=
perate
> partition, but I haven't got it to work :(
>=20
> I found the tools in question by looking here ->
>=20
> http://www.usmedia.nl/joel/inspiron.html
>=20
> I've got the A10 BIOS (so now I can suspend to ram and everything comes b=
ack
> except USB [the mixer volumes are reset to 0 though]) but no suspend to d=
isk :(
> The BIOS always reports that there is no partition or it is incompatible =
with
> this BIOS (depending on the method I try).
>=20
> 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
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