Re: S4bios on Sony Vaio FX601

[marcogi-VGgt2q2+T+FeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:15:31AM +0100, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:40:03AM +0100, marcogi-VGgt2q2+T+FeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a Sony Vaio PCG-FX601 (FXA53 is the US model) and I wondering it
> > it support S4bios.
> > If it is supported, I need an A0 suspend partition?
> 
> Well, I think that you should have such partition.  This one have a
> Phoenix bios, no?  Try lphdisk at http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
> or do a apt-get install lphdisk if you are on a Debian GNU/Linux.

Yes, bios is Phoenix and I have debiani; lphdisk already got.
My question is why to make suspend partition I must resize a 11GB ext2
partition and must buckup it.

> > myhost:/tmp/pmtools-20010730# ./acpidmp/acpidmp FACS|./acpidmp/acpitbl
> > Signature:              FACS
> > Length:                 64
> > Hardware Signature:     0x00000a59
> > Firmware Waking Vector: 0x00000000
> > Global Lock:            0x00000000
> > Flags:                  0x00000000
> 
> The Flags part say that you can not use S4Bios, certainly because the
> BIOS know that you don't have a suspend partition.
> 
> The Flags part have bit 0 set if you can enter S4Bibos.

ok, as I suspected.
Thanks very much.

--
Regards, Marco Gigante


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