[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/02/2000 03:59:06 PM
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>On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 01:05:44PM -0700, Adrian D Jensen wrote:
>I have a VAIO F400LT. I think it should suspend to disk at 7% of
>battery life (at least it says it will which I assume means it does in
>Windows). It doesn't do this in linux though.
>
>Do you have any magic in some apm file to do this?
>
>I played with apm_proxy and tried to add an "apm -s" on the battery
>change event which I think is the one that is issued then. But it
>blatently didn't work because I left it overnight it was dead the next
>day.
>
>Any pointers? Any people with VAIOs want to say "Yes it works for me
>you're just being silly"?
>
>
>Simon.
>
No, I don't have any apm magic files. This is a system notification, from the
BIOS, that a suspend event is about to occur as opposed to an "apm -s". It's
actually kind of wierd in that I disabled the power management and timeouts in
the BIOS setup screen but the BIOS still issues commands.
First, I'd have to ask, are you sure suspend actually works? And second, does it
suspend to disk or to RAM? On my Quantex I have to receive the system
notification or use a special key combination to get it to suspend to disk. An
"apm -s" just suspends it to RAM. Maybe it did suspend to RAM and then run out
of juice anyways.
I just took a quick look at the Linux on Laptops page and it says the Vaio F4xx
series does work in "deep suspend" via a key combination, but not whether that
is to disk or RAM. Another possiblity is that perhaps the suspend to disk
partition is just not set up correctly. On mine, before seting up the partition,
it would just make a beep and flash a quick message before moving on. You had to
look quick to catch it.
Adrian
