Re: debian package for sleep to disk?

[Gerard Robin <g.robin3@free.fr>]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:36:52PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
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> hello
>
> i am in the process of setting up a new laptop, and am at the moment
> searching without a success how to implement a hibernate
> functionality....
>
> there's surely a package in debian offering this, but i seem to hit the
> wrong keywords.... so if someone could point me into the right
> direction!

apt-cache search sleep, gives:
acpitool - a small, convenient command-line ACPI client
hibernate - smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or disk)
sleepd - puts an inactive or low battery laptop to sleep

+ the packages: uswsusp, acpi-support, vbetool, ...

hth
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Gérard