Dell i7500 & Suspend to Disk

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:32:08PM -0400, Timothy Luoma wrote:
> I was just thinking about the Dell's "Suspend to Disk" (I think AKA 
> "Hibernation" in Windows).  It's a feature I use all the time.  Is there 
> anything special that I need to do to be able to use it in FreeBSD?  (I am 
> assuming that I <em>can</em> use it in FreeBSD)

That's a resounding 'depends'. APM suspend-to-disk is known to work. ACPI
suspend-to-disk is a different kettle of fish. Both Linux and the Windows
ACPI HAL have been munged in interesting ways to make this possible. For
us, we only do it if the BIOS supports it (see S4BIOS) right now.

BMS