[TriLUG] ACPI power managment

[uzoma nwosu]

I've never gotten suspend to work satisfactorily on my Latitude LS
400.  Suspend 2 was easy to install and works like a charm on FC4.

Uzoma

On 7/6/05, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
> 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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