also sprach Mark Roach <mrroach@okmaybe.com> [2002.12.14.0633 +0100]: > AFAIK acpi is not intended to handle software suspend on its own. > instead, the swsusp patch (which is now a part of the 2.5 kernel > series), handles all the suspend to disk. It basically dumps you ram to > your swap partition, then you set up two lilo entries, one to boot > normally, one to restore from disk. It seems rather complicated at the > moment. I went to what I would call considerable effort to get all acpi > working on my laptop (down to modifying the acpi asl code) but never was > able to get swsusp working. As always though, YMMV. Thanks, I know about swsusp. But I want to suspend to RAM, not the disk. I.e. take power from HDD and processor and only feed the RAM so it keeps the state of the system until the processor and HDD get power again. -- Please do not CC me! Get a proper mailer instead: www.mutt.org .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The public PGP keyservers are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc
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