Intel D875PBZ ACPI & S3 Suspend

I am new to ACPI but I have: Searched the archives
                                             Looked at the MAN pages    
     
                                             Used Google to the best of 
my abilities

and I still have sonme questions about ACPI. My basic goal is to be able 
to suspend my desktop machine to S3 when not in use. I need to use the 
machine several times throughout the day, and feel it is a wate to leave 
it on continuously. The system spec are: Intel D875PBZ, Intel P4 3GHZ, 
Radeonm 9700 pro, Sounblaster Live, Debian unstable with 2.4.23 and 
2.6.2 kernerls available, both with ACPI compiled as modules. Pressing 
the power button once gracefully shuts down the machine.

After reading the documentation, I am still not sure how tot try to 
suspend to S3. Is there anyone with this motherboard succesfully using 
S3 suspend? Is it reliable and stable, suspend after suspend.
Is S3 suspend with Linux on the desktop the Holy Grail of ACPI? The 
machines suspends to S3 in Windows 2000 Pro, also shuts all the fans 
down too, totally silent.

Any advice would be appreciated.


Nick


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