Re: ACPI and sleep mode

2002-12-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.14.0633 +0100]: > AFAIK acpi is not intended to handle software suspend on its own. > instead, the swsusp patch (which is now a part of the 2.5 kernel > series), handles all the suspend to disk. It basically dumps you ram to > your swap partition,

Re: ACPI and sleep mode

2002-12-13 Thread Mark Roach
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 17:15, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Noah L. Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.13.2030 +0100]: > > The ACPI implementation in Linux 2.4 is really not very useful. I'm not > > sure that you can actually put your laptop to sleep with it. > > echo 1 >| /proc/acpi/sl

Re: ACPI and sleep mode

2002-12-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Noah L. Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.13.2030 +0100]: > The ACPI implementation in Linux 2.4 is really not very useful. I'm not > sure that you can actually put your laptop to sleep with it. echo 1 >| /proc/acpi/sleep will make my Dell's LED flash, the fan slowly decrease in

Re: ACPI and sleep mode

2002-12-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 06:52:33PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > When I tell my laptop to go to sleep, the event is correctly forwarded > to /etc/acpi/default.sh, but it claims it doesn't know what to do to > put the laptop to sleep. Well, neither do I, APM is disabled. The ACPI implementation i