acpi S4 resume partition

Stijn Hoop stijn at win.tue.nl
Tue Jan 13 22:56:56 PST 2004


On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:02:27PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> In theory your BIOS could support S4BIOS which means it does most of the
> work, but I don't think anyone has ever had that work either.

I had this working on a Dell Inspiron 4150, but it turned out to be much
slower than just rebooting the thing (about 60 seconds for reading/writing it
all to disk vs about 30 seconds for booting). I needed to get a Dell utility
from the website (S2D.EXE iirc) and create a suspend to disk partition *as
the first partition on the disk*.

And of course, resuming within X was not really supported because some things
like the display failed to properly reinitialize, just like with S3.

In the end I decided to dedicate the space to something else. It wasn't worth
it IMHO. An OS-based S4 might turn out to be much more useful.

--Stijn

-- 
"I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."
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