Re: Acer Travelmate 512T (was: LinModems)
Tobias Bachmor wrote:
> Repartitioning with Fips was not a problem for me. Just make sure you
> disable the hibernation-mode under Win first and enable it later. The
> hibernation-program then will recreate its file for the memory dump.
I read
http://www.suse.de/~garloff/TravelMate/
with these paragraphs:
| NEW (2000-02-16): Acer put an updated BIOS R01-A3H on their german web
| server, which solves the problem, so you don't need the parameter any
| longer, if you update your BIOS.
|
| APM then works mostly. The battery works for approximately 4 hours with
| normal Linux operation. Standby (Suspend to RAM) works and puts the
| Notebook in a low power mode. This can be achieved by Fn-F3, by closing
| the lid or entering apm -S. However Hibernate (Suspend to disk), to be
| activated by Fn-F4 (or apm -s)does not work as supposed. If a suspend
| file has been created by the W*n9x sleepmgr, then the BIOS does write
| the RAM onto the disk, like with W*n98 operation. However, those blocks
| are unreadable afterwards!! The resume operation takes two hours of
| funny disk noise to no avail. The disk contains CRC errors afterwards!!
| Fortunately those can be recovered by writing to the damaged locations
| using dd or dd_rescue.
|
| Acer has no solution for this problem yet ... and no official Linux
| support for their Notebooks.
Do you use hibernation with Windows 98 and Debian 2.2?
Cheers,
Nils
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