On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:49:39PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote: | On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:09:03PM -0400, dman wrote: | > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:57:06PM -0600, Jeff Lessem wrote: | > | In your message of: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:06:19 EDT, you write: | > ... | > | >As I was looking up info on the suspend-to-disk feature I found some | > | | > | I got suspend to disk working by setting up a partition with lphdisk | > | from http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/. Then pressing fn-a will | > | suspend to disk. I found this to be a nearly worthless feature | > | though. Writing out a 384MB+ memory image takes a several minutes, | > | and reading it back in takes much longer than booting from scratch. | > | Even with the normal suspend, I have left my laptop asleep for 24 | > | hours and still only used less than 1/3 of one battery. | > | > Hmm, yeah, that makes sense. I think I'll try it anyways because the | > ability to not drain battery power while still leaving your work open | > sounds nice. One thing to note though : if I close the laptop too | > quickly after shutting down it isn't really shutdown yet and is in | > suspend(-to-RAM) mode. When I open it again it loads up, finishes | > shutting down, and takes quite a while to get anything useful out of | > it :-). | | In the standard laptop bios, you can disable the "sleep to ram on screen | close" feature. I switched it to only turn off the screen when I close, | and require an explicit command to sleep, either to disk or ram. I much | prefer this behavior.
This BIOS doesn't seem to have that option. I have "Suspend to RAM" and "Suspend to Disk" as the only choices for "Suspend Mode". -D
