Re: APM, ACPI and DPMS question

[Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham-jjFNsPSvq+iXDw4h08c5KA@public.gmane.org>]

Hi.

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 22:52, Jan Bernatik wrote:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> You should also be aware of another little glitch I discovered. The 
> XFree86 server has an option for DPMS (Energy Star) features. The DPMS 
> can states can be one of standby, suspend, off or on. Since the 2.4.x 
> kernels cannot suspend to disk, this can cause problems.

Suspend2 is available for 2.4 kernels; it doesn't need ACPI or APM
support. You're right in thinking that the issues of whether
suspend-to-{ram,disk} is supported is completely independent of DPMS. It
appears that the author of that page was confused.

Regards,

Nigel
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