On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jacek M. Wuwer wrote: > >- Has anyone managed to successfully persuade BIOS to use suspend to >disk partition instead of file on FATXX ( active ?? ) partition ? The >file size with decent amount of RAM on T20 drives the allocation unit on >FAT16 considerably. > If I'm right, you make space at the end of you harddisk, slightly more (about 4-8Mb) than how much memory you have. Set the partition ID to &0xa0 (if I remeber, you want the IBM hibination one) and run the software you got with your laptop that "format"'s the new partition. This should sort things out. However as I don't have a T20 you could be on your own, however all the laptops I have set up use this process for a hibination routine.
>( this one is slightly OT, I know, but T20 has very ugly looking fonts >on regular console ) >- how to compile in the vesa framebuffer support in recent 2.4.x kernels >? The code is definitely in, but I could not find the option when >running 'make menuconfig' to turn it on ... > what you need is the "Change VGA mode" setting enabled. This then allows you to find a nice text console font. There are plenty to choose from. The best way to work out which one is the best is to add to your lilo.conf file "vga=ask". On boot up (with the newly compiled vga mode option kernel) you will be given a prompt that will allow you to select a range of console modes. Its trial and error from here. Once you have found one you like re-edit you lilo.conf file to say instead of "vga=ask" to "vga=id" where 'id' is the number of the console font you like. I hope this helps Alex
