On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 05:37:18PM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > How do other laptops, go about hibernating?
>
> on Satellite, without apm enabled, pressing Fn+Faucet once starts by dimming
> the screen; after a few minutes, the screen goes of altogether, and the disk
> stops. The computer is still useable, though (the screen lights when keys are
> hit, and the disk starts if needed). Hitting Fn+Faucet twice undims the screen
That part works fine to switch between the different power usage settings,
in my case it also seems to about half the cpu clock.
When I say hibernate I mean the suspend to disk feature other manufacturers
seem to call it. That is where the memory is dumped to disk and the
computer turns off. When you turn it on it is loaded and you continue
where you left off.
I was looking at the apm bios specification 1.2, which is the version linux
reports the laptop having, and it looks like it only has two different
suspend type calls. Those two seem to be working just fine under Linux.
It does list a OEM product-specific APM functions, but I'm not sure if I
want to start playing around with those, concidering I would have no idea
what they are supposed to be doing.
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