Re: Suspend or hibernate - how?

From: Satish Balay (balay_at_fastmail.fm)
Date: 05/25/04

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    On Mon, 24 May 2004, Leon Stringer wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > With FC2, can you suspend to disk or RAM without any additional patches? If
    > so what's the command?
    >
    > I've been searching on this and as far as I can see FC2 includes ACPI support
    > but no way hibernate.
    >
    > If there is a way, shouldn't the Battery Charge Monitor applet include this
    > in the "Suspend command" setting (instead of a command which doesn't work.
    > i.e. /usr/bin/apm -s).
    >
    > Anyone got this going reliably with the default install or with patches?
    >
    > Leon...
    > (Using FC2 on a Tecra 9000).
    >

    I've tried suspend to ram - not disk. If ACPI were to work you could
    do the following as root:

    echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep

    However ACPI doesnt' work verywell for me - so I use apm. This is
    enabled when you use the kerel option 'acpi=off' in /boot/grub/menu.lst

    Satish
    (Still FC1 - but experimenting with FC2 on IBM ThinkPad T40) 

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