Re: FreeBSD 5.0 and Dell notebooks

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 17:27, Lars Eggert wrote:
> 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.

Provided you stick to APM..
The suspend to disk thing is only available with APM - an ACPI OS is
supposed to do all of that stuff without help from the BIOS.

Unfortunately no one has written suspend to disk support for FreeBSD yet
:(

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