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Date:      Mon, 06 Aug 2001 08:33:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, Jose Gabriel J Marcelino <gabriel@maquina.com>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: ACPI changes
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010806083308.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200108052219.f75MJX100735@mass.dis.org>

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On 05-Aug-01 Mike Smith wrote:
>> Usually with APM enabled I just press The Fn+F1 key combination
>> to initiate suspend to disk, but this same key sequence doesn't
>> do a thing when under ACPI. Is this supposed to work yet?
> 
> Under ACPI, the OS initiates sleep, not the BIOS, so the keyboard 
> shortcuts aren't going to do anything.

Not necessarily.  Fn+Esc (suspend on my laptop) triggers a sleep button event,
however it is still up to the OS to do the actual suspend.  (FWIW, Fn+Esc goes
to S1 fine for me.)

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