Re: [ACPI] Re: [2.5.50, ACPI] link error

Andrew McGregor
2002-12-10T21:05:30Z

I strongly suspect that s4bios will work on this machine, but swsusp won't.
Why? It's a Dell Inspiron 8000 with an NVidia Geforce2go, and until NVidia
put pm support in their driver, it's game over for Linux. Except that the
BIOS knows how to suspend it, so some kernel/driver combinations work with
APM. I suspect any Geforce2go Dell is the same.

Andrew

--On Tuesday, December 10, 2002 21:40:31 +0100 Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
>> > I concur with your pros and cons. This makes me think that if S4BIOS
>> > support ever gets added, it should get added to 2.4 only.
>
> And S4BIOS will never get added to 2.4 since it needs driver model
> :-(.
>
>> That assumes no box exists where S4bios works an S4 doesnt (eg due to
>> bad tables or "knowing" what other-os does)
>
> We have full control over S4 (== swsusp), so we can fix that in most
> cases.
>
> S4BIOS is still little friendlier to the user -- no need to set up
> swap partition and command line parameter, can't go wrong if you boot
> without resume=, etc.
> Pavel
>
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