ummm im most certian they are windows only executables, although some of the
newer presario laptops have it as part of the phoenix BIOS which i belive is
part of the ACPI interface, if you can get this going under linux go or it,
but im not too sure if thats possible or not.
Stewart Gardiner
Technical Support Technician - Consumer Support
CompaqCare Centre
Compaq Customer Services
Compaq Computer Australia
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Donohue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 01:58 PM
To: Gregg Jorgen Suaning
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] save to disk
Gregg Jorgen Suaning wrote:
> Anyone know how the 'save to disk' function works on a laptop? This is the
> facility where the data in memory is saved to disk and the computer shuts
> off - when the computer is restarted, you pick up where you left off.
i've had it on a compaq before. check the compaq web site for the file name
that kicks off the save to disk function. basically it makes one big file
that
it writes the memory to when the computer powers down. this file size can
change depending on the memory on your computer. i've only seen it running
on
windows on a compaq before. i've never had experiance with linux on a
laptop. i
don't know how it worked on linux!
i remember years ago another similar way of doing this. it used to map out
part
of the hard disk and, to disk utilities like format, it would look like bad
areas mapped out unusable on the disk. in fact it was the swap to disk area.
anyway check the compaq web site and it will give you the file name and
possibly let you download it. again however, i've only seen it as a windows
executable. unless compaq and/or phoenix have another way of doing it. in
which
case look in the bios setup when the computer boots up. on a compaq it's
usually press F10 when the little white square starts flashing in the top
right
corner of the screen sometime after power on.
hope this helps
Ben
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