Re: tlug: Sony VAIO & apm

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Andrew S. Howell wrote:
    >> >>>>> "Frank" == Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com>
    >> writes:
    >> 
    Frank> I have TL-j 2.0 installed on a Sony VAIO with an APM
    Frank> kernel.  Everything has been working well enough, except
    Frank> that the machine has not wanted to hibernate to disk.
    >>  [snip]
    >> 
    >> 
    >> I'm not sure why its not working, but if you don't mind
    >> recompiling the kernel, you could try modifying
    >> drivers/char/apm_bios.c to define APM_DEBUG. By default, it is:
    >> 

    Scott> In order to hibernate to disk you need to have a special
    Scott> partition set aside for that.  If you nuked it when
    Scott> installing Linux, I don't think it will hibernate to disk.

Now you've got me curious. On my ThinkPad 760EL, there does not seem
to be a way to hibernate. I looked the the apm_bios.c and it didn't
make mention of hibernating. When I had NT on it, NT was so brain dead
that suspending it was one of the quickest ways to kill it! :)

So, it hibernating an even lower level bios function than the APM
stuff?...

	Andy


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