[ltp] Can't go to sleep

[George Staikos]

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On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Michael Herron wrote:

>  > I experienced a strange proble after installing Linux+LILO on a IBM
>  > Thinkpad i1467 : After this installation, each time I launch the sleep
>  > manager (in Win98), it answered me that it cannot work on a machine
>  > without any hard disk. But when I close the top of the laptop, at least
>  > with win98, it goes into hibernation.
> 
> Do you mean standby when you close the top?  There is a sleep manager
> in Win98 and you can configure what you want to happen when you close
> the top of the machine.  I've never had that error, by the way, and I
> configured my win98 sleep manager last week.  How did you re-partition
> your disk?
> 
> As for your last comment, I do not believe hibernation is supported in
> linux at present.  Check the apmd man page.  Under linux, when I hit
> the sleep key (alt-function-4, or something like this - not working on
> my laptop at the moment) my machine goes into sleep/standby mode with
> no problems.  I did not have to set anything to do this.  Closing the
> lid does nothing, though. 

   There is a kernel patch that allows suspend-to-disk but I don't know how
maintained it is at the moment.  I dont' have the url offhand either but a
quick websearch should come up with it.

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George Staikos 


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