On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 04:33:54PM -0700, Adrian D Jensen wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/02/2000 03:59:06 PM
> >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.
> 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.
Suspend to RAM and suspend to disk[0] both work.
> And "apm -s" just suspends it to RAM. Maybe it did suspend to RAM and
> then "run out of juice anyways.
Yes, I had noticed that I can't find a way to suspend to disk using apm.
Perhaps it did. I might have to do a more thorough test and actually be
awake when it dies. ;-)
Sorry, I just thought you had some magic somewhere.
> 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.
Yeah, when I deleted the suspend to disk partition (ahem) it would
suspend to RAM when I hit the suspend to disk combination.
Thanks anyway.
[0] after I reinstated the partition I trashed during the "Hmm, I wonder
if that's the suspend to disk partition. Let's see" stage
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