Difference between revisions of "How to make use of Power Management features"
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The partition to put the file on must be a dos or vfat partition. Fat32 formatted partitions have been reported successful as well as Fat16 formatted ones. The file is either created with ps2.exe, if you happen to have a floppy drive and a bootable dos floppy disk that you can start it from. | The partition to put the file on must be a dos or vfat partition. Fat32 formatted partitions have been reported successful as well as Fat16 formatted ones. The file is either created with ps2.exe, if you happen to have a floppy drive and a bootable dos floppy disk that you can start it from. | ||
| − | Under Linux tphdisk will do this job for you. | + | Under Linux [[tphdisk]] will do this job for you. |
Todo... (how to create the file, partition size) | Todo... (how to create the file, partition size) | ||
Revision as of 05:25, 6 November 2004
APM
general
Todo...
Screen blanking (Standby)
Todo...
Suspend to RAM (Sleep)
Todo...
Suspend to disk (Hibernate)
The Phoenix BIOS allows you two ways to hibernate with APM: using a special partition or using a hibernation file on a dos type partition.
using a hibernation partition
Todo...
using a hibernation file on a dos partition
The partition to put the file on must be a dos or vfat partition. Fat32 formatted partitions have been reported successful as well as Fat16 formatted ones. The file is either created with ps2.exe, if you happen to have a floppy drive and a bootable dos floppy disk that you can start it from. Under Linux tphdisk will do this job for you.
Todo... (how to create the file, partition size)
ACPI
general
Todo...
Screen blanking (Standby)
Todo...
Suspend to RAM (Sleep)
ACPI Sleep and suspend-to-ram with recent 2.6.x kernels usually works fine, too.
Todo...
Suspend to disk (Hibernate)
SoftwareSuspend2 works fine as long as you use open-source graphic drivers.
Todo...
