I believe this is because the suspend that the suspend button and the lid
closing isn't really a suspend. Noticably, the battery discharges much
faster than either save to disk OR save to ram. I'm not sure why they
made it that way, but for some reason I seem to be in the habbit of ^H
instead of backspace. Strange.
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Werner M. Seiler wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a rather stupid question. I'm running SuSE Linux 6.0 on an
> Inspiron 3500 and I have the APM package installed. If I leave the machine
> alone for long enough, it will suspend to disk (which is exactly what I've
> set in the BIOS). Now sometimes I'd like to enforce a suspend to disk, but
> when I press the suspend key or when I simply close the lid, I get a
> suspend to RAM and not to disk. This behaviour is rather annoying, as it
> means that I must always perform a proper shutdown, if I want to switch
> off the machine (and boot Linux anew later). How can I "convince" the
> suspend key to suspend to disk?
>
> Thanx for your help!
> Werner
>
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