Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 14:20:39 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Melvyn Sopacua <freebsd-current@webteckies.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI results Inspiron 8000 Message-ID: <200312031420.39542.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200312021220.49095.freebsd-current@webteckies.org> References: <3FCBB91E.7000505@gmx.net> <200312021017.22442.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200312021220.49095.freebsd-current@webteckies.org>
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On Tuesday 02 December 2003 21:50, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > > I used to suspend to disk in 4.x after creating the S2D partition with > > the floppy image from Dell, however I don't any more.. > > I kept the Dell partition intact. Or does it need special formatting? If it's a newish laptop then that partition has diag tools on it, not a suspend to disk partition. My laptop didn't come with a S2D partition because WinME does it itself - ie I'd say the S2D method is deprecated. > > Basically it takes so long to suspend and resume with a decent amount of > > memory (256Mb+) that it's not worth it - most of my applications are > > smart enough to save state when they quit :) > Hmm, since I have 512 and might upgrade to 1G of memory, I guess I don't > need it either :). But it should error out and resume normal powerstate if > for whatever reason suspension does not work. It should not reboot. Sure thing.. Got patches? :) -- 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
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