From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Giger Subject: Re: [PATCH] S4Bios support for 2.4.20 + acpi-20021205 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:54:48 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20021213175448.2adc60c3.gigerstyle@gmx.ch> References: <20021213155309.GG4327@poup.poupinou.org> <20021213171431.045233f0.nils@kernelconcepts.de> <20021213163615.GI4327@poup.poupinou.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20021213163615.GI4327-j6u/t2rXLliUoIHC/UFpr9i2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Ducrot Bruno Cc: nils-t93Ne7XHvje5bSeCtf/tX7NAH6kLmebB@public.gmane.org, acpi-devel-pyega4qmqnRoyOMFzWx49A@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:36:15 +0100 Ducrot Bruno wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 05:14:31PM +0100, Nils Faerber wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:53:09 +0100 > > Ducrot Bruno wrote: > > > Patch for 2.4.20 and acpi-20021205 for adding s4bios feature. > > > > Hey, that sounds great! > > Just a little question: How do I use it :) > > > > Don't think I am stupid... > > I know that a echo 1 > /proc/acpi/sleep should do the trick, i.e. > > suspend to disk. But how do I configure that suspend partition? Or where > > Well, I don't know. Perhaps lphdisk (I don't remember the URI) could > help. Some googling permit to get it. Or (who knows?) even a /dev/hda1 > as a vfat partition can help? > > > does it suspend? I know for Phoenix BIOSes there is a tool on the net to > > create that partition. I have a Asus L3800C notebook which has AFAIK an > > AWARD BIOS. And AFAIK there is no tool available from ASUS or AWARD to > > create such a partition. > > In a really perfect world: > echo 1 > /proc/acpi/sleep # for standby > echo 2 > /proc/acpi/sleep # for suspend to ram > echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep # for suspend to ram, but with more power conservative > echo 4 > /proc/acpi/sleep # for suspend to disk > echo 5 > /proc/acpi/sleep # for shutdown unfriendly the system > > and perhaps > echo 4b > /proc/acpi/sleep # for suspend to disk via s4bios > > Actually, since there is no S4 support in 2.4, 4 and 4b is the same here. Just a question: I thought S2 and S3 are not supported in 2.4 ? S4 over swsuspend in 2.4 ? or not? I was never able to suspend a machine with S2 or S3... greets Marc ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/