On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:09:03PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:57:06PM -0600, Jeff Lessem wrote: > | In your message of: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:06:19 EDT, you write: > ... > | >As I was looking up info on the suspend-to-disk feature I found some > | > | I got suspend to disk working by setting up a partition with lphdisk > | from http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/. Then pressing fn-a will > | suspend to disk. I found this to be a nearly worthless feature > | though. Writing out a 384MB+ memory image takes a several minutes, > | and reading it back in takes much longer than booting from scratch. > | Even with the normal suspend, I have left my laptop asleep for 24 > | hours and still only used less than 1/3 of one battery. > > Hmm, yeah, that makes sense. I think I'll try it anyways because the > ability to not drain battery power while still leaving your work open > sounds nice. One thing to note though : if I close the laptop too > quickly after shutting down it isn't really shutdown yet and is in > suspend(-to-RAM) mode. When I open it again it loads up, finishes > shutting down, and takes quite a while to get anything useful out of > it :-). In the standard laptop bios, you can disable the "sleep to ram on screen close" feature. I switched it to only turn off the screen when I close, and require an explicit command to sleep, either to disk or ram. I much prefer this behavior. -ben -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, ben@hartshorne.net All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben.hartshorne.net Up there, alone, in the impartial dark. -M. Oliver My PGP key is at /pgp.txt. Please encrypt all communications.
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