How to make use of Power Management features

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APM

general

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Screen blanking (Standby)

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Suspend to RAM (Sleep)

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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

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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

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Screen blanking (Standby)

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Suspend to RAM (Sleep)

ACPI Sleep and suspend-to-ram with recent 2.6.x kernels usually works fine, too.

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Suspend to disk (Hibernate)

SoftwareSuspend2 works fine as long as you use open-source graphic drivers.

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