APM, ACPI and DPMS question

[Jan Bernatik <bernatik-nd92eFGgBBntwjQa/ONI9g@public.gmane.org>]

Hi,

I'm studying ACPI, and I found that:

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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.
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source: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ACPI-HOWTO/daemons.html

I really doesn't understand this. I thought it's just about monitor 
energy, so please could somebody just roughly explain this ?

thanks, have a nice day

Jan Bernatik
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