Re: FreeBSD 5.0 and Dell notebooks

On 1/14/2003 10:50 PM, Nicholas Esborn wrote:
> 
> I run CURRENT on a Dell Latitude C600 PP01L.  I ran some tests to get
> more detailed information.  During these tests, I was running:
> 
> FreeBSD assisi 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #23: Sat Jan 11 17:19:32 PST 2003     nick@assisi:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ASSISI  i386
> 
> I ran acpiconf -s [1-5] and noted the results:

[snipped]

Great summary! I see *exactly* the symptoms you are describing.

> acpiconf -s 4:
> 
> The machine goes to a formal-looking text mode warning that there is
> no suspend-to-disk partition (which is true);

With a partition created by Dell's make-suspend-partition floppy, I 
could suspend and resume with save-to-disk on 4.6. (I have since trashed 
the partition, because I needed its partition table slot.) So there is 
some hope this might work on -current also.

Lars
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Lars Eggert <[email protected]>           USC Information Sciences Institute