Don Fisher wrote:
>
> Has anyone had success making a laptop go into the deep suspend mode
> where it writes the contents of the current memory and video buffer to
> disk and then shuts itself off. I know windows can do it, but I can't
> figure out how to make a partition that my bios will recognize.
>
> Laptop is an NEC 6260.
>
I have a NEC Versa 4050C. Suspend to disk does not and cannot work
because the suspend routine attempts to save to a file using the OS.
Since the BIOS can't use the Linux file write routines it can't save to
disk. (At least this is what NEC tells me.)
I have managed to get the BIOS to recognize a suspend file by creating a
MSDOS partition with the suspend file. (It has to be the first partition
then you have to boot into MSDOS and run a program from NEC's website to
create the file.)
