[TriLUG] ACPI power managment

[William Sutton]

http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/readme.html

Basic procedure is dead easy...see second url, item #2 for details, but 
basically the process is this:
1. install lphdisk on your laptop
2. calculate the amount of system RAM + video RAM + 2 Mb
3. create a partition of the size calculated in step 2 of type a0 (IBM 
ThinkPad hibernation type....yes, it says IBM, no it isn't brand specific)
4. prepare partition using lphdisk

should work like a charm from there.  I've done this on my Sony Vaio 
PCG-505GX, without a hitch.

-- 
William Sutton

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Matt Pusateri wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
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