Re: dell inspiron 8600 not working

[Bruno Ducrot <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 06:25:24PM +0200, Spike Spiegel wrote:
> It was a dark and stormy night on 2004/07/16 when I heard Bruno Ducrot yelling:
> 
> [cut]
> > If really what you need is suspend/resume especially on a 2.4 kernel,
> > you may want to test if APM work better for you.  
> 
> uhm, thought APM wasn't supported anymore by this BIOS.
> 
> >2.4 kernels do support
> > only S1 and S4bios (and maybe S4 via some patches), but AFAIK,
> > developpers loose interrest to support those functionnality in a 2.4
> > kernel, and those S1 and S4bios are likely unstable under 2.4.
> 
> ok, guess I'll try to upgrade in a little while, I really need susped to
> disk.
> 
> Could you please point me somewhere I can read about required steps
> to get S4 working on 2.6?

If your only need is S4, you should try
http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de/
which have been reported to work pretty well with 2.4 kernel also..

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.


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