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Proinnsias Breathnach writes:
> ACPI doesn't define a 'hardware sleep/suspend' going ... that's APM -
> although S4bios is implemented on some dual-stacked (APM and ACPI)
> hardware - no guarantee that'll work either - again it relies on a
> suspend-to-disk partition being available - the bios takes care of
> writing the image to disk and resuming it - but I have only heard of a
> few cases where it's worked properly for new hardware.
FWIW, I've found it to be more reliable than ACPI software suspend in my
experience, presumably because the hardware manufacturers make sure their
hardware can do it with their BIOS.
It can be tricky to set up; I had to overwrite my WinXP partition with
Win98 to set up the partition on my Thinkpad T40 ;)
- --j.
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