[TriLUG] ACPI power managment

[Matt Pusateri]

Suspend to ram or to disk(hibernate?) either one would be fine. 
Ideally it would be nice if the function keys worked, but just the
ablitity to suspend/hibernate would be good.  I'm not picky in this
case.

Matt


On Tue, July 5, 2005 5:55 pm, William Sutton said:
> By "suspend", do you mean hibernate-to-disk or something else
> entirely?
> If hibernate-to-disk, automatic or on-demand?  On-demand (usually
> bios-supported, maps to a function key on the keyboard) requires a
> particular type of partition; lphdisk (pronounced elfdisk) can be used
> to
> create the appropriate sized partition; bios handles the rest.  If
> otherwise...maybe someone else can help :)
>
> William Sutton
>
>
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Matt Pusateri wrote:
>
>> Triluggers,
>>
>> I have a new Dell Latitude D610 notebook.  I've been able to get the
>> Dell Wireless 1450 card, and the Intel i915 video card working.  I
>> would now like to to get suspend working under FC4. I am looking for
>> a
>> point in the right direction concerning acpi.  I'm thinking I need
>> to
>> put a script in /etc/acpi/events.  But I'm not sure.  Any advice
>> would
>> be appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt P.