[ltp] Re: hibernate

Dirk Husemann linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
05 Jul 2002 17:17:21 +0200


On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 14:55, Dale P. Smith wrote:
> On 27 Jun 2002 13:41:28 +0100
> Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham@VData.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 13:18, Dale P. Smith wrote:
> > > I have a t21 with 256m of ram.  Hibernation takes about 30 seconds. 
> > > Well, actually I use "readysafe".  It's the only way to actually
> > > hibernate from a program, I believe.
> > 
> > Got a pointer to this?  Google has failed me :-/
> 
> It's in the bios.  Whenever you do a suspend, a hibernation file is
> written out.  It's really nice if you suspend and forget to charge the
> machine for a few days.

What I've done on my box is to tell BIOS to suspend normally but to go
into hibernation after 90min. Works nicely as well.

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