acpi S4 resume partition

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 14 January 2004 01:33 pm, toxa at cterra.ru wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:02:27PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 January 2004 12:47, toxa wrote:
> > However there is no support in FreeBSD for suspending to disk so you are
> > out of luck..
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
>
> Does it means that all I can do is to try to get S3 (suspend to ram) state
> to work without any chance fot suspending to disk? By the way S3 put
> machine into the sleep with red-blinking power led (i think it's abnormal),
> and when I power it on led turns on back and shows me command line but
> mackine freezes.

You might have to wait a while for it to finish resuming.  My dell laptop 
takes about 50 seconds to a minute to fully come back after an S3 resume.  It 
seems to be hung during that minute as the disk doesn't do anything, but it 
does eventually come back if I wait long enough.

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