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[Chris Dombroski <cdombroski AT gambit.gotdns.org>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:12:48PM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>:
> > Hello list!
> > 
> > I've got a dell laptop and I would like to use the suspend to disk 
> > feature.
> > I can successfully suspend to disk, but resuming is a problem. I appear to
> > need perhaps something special to the init system. There's a patch out for
> > sysVinit, but that doesn't work too well with sourcemage. 
> > 
> > So, I would like to know if anyone has had any success with this, or any
> > information that you might have encountered. I would really like this to
> > work, because then I can pseudo shutdown my laptop for transport.
> 
> I have a Dell Inspiron 4000 and using ACPI (in KDE, not sure how to do it in
> others) I can suspend my laptop and resume it later. It doesn't always work
> (I've tried it twice, it failed once, but that's when I wasn't paying 
> attention
> and setting things up, so it could be a PEBKAC error).
> 
> I have Suspend-to-Disk enabled on my root partition, but I'm not sure ACPI 
> is
> using that or not.
> 
> -sandalle

I'd like to report success with a HP Pavilion laptop. I've had 50%
success with S1. And no luck with S3 due to lack of video coming out of
it.

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Chris Dombroski
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