Below is a progress report on findings so far and perhaps some new questions. Documented here for those who follow where I tread - to be archived for that purpose as well as for the current gentoo gurus to be able to assist (I hope) On Apr 5, 2005 5:13 PM, Nick Rout wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 17:08 +1200, yuri wrote: > > On the subject of partitioning, it occured to me that maybe I should > > add a suspend partition to the laptop this time - I lost it when I > > nuked XP to install mandrake. > > Hard to find any info on what sort of suspend partition is needed for > > NEC Versa E series laptops. > > > > I've found on google that Thinkpad Hibernation format uses partition > > type "a0" but similar info can't be found for NEC Versa. > > I have a feeling that its governed by the bios, I have had two phoenix > bios laptops that both required a partition of type a0. YMMV. > > Look too at the linux laptops page (google linux laptops, it is always > number one on the list) > > > > > According to lphdisk info at > > http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/readme.html it should work for any > > Pheonix NoteBIOS laptop. When I get home to night I'll see if our > > laptop uses this BIOS, then problem solved.
Okay, I've got a bios from a crowd I've never heard of: Insyde. I emailed NEC support "how do I re-create the suspend partition?" and NEC replied "Depends, what version of windows are you using?" Ha! Gave up on NEC then. swsusp2 seems to be what I'm after. The howto that Nick linked to says it can be triggered by the power button if you can get acpi to work. Now: When I shutdown knoppix, it ejects the disk, tells me to hit enter when it's removed, and then turns the laptop off. When I shut down mandrake, it shuts down all services, kills all processes, unmounts all filesystems, then waits for me to switch off power manually. >From the above I surmise that knoppix can use acpi or apm or something, but mandrake can't (at least not without some tweaking on my part, so not OOTB). I gather, therefore, that gentoo can be cajoled into using acpi on my laptop with enough gurus looking into it :-) swsusp2 save stuff to the swap partition, so no separate suspend partition is required. I think I'm set. Can anybody, from reading what I've just typed, see anything I might be overlooking? Yuri -- ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before sending reply to this post.
