[ltp] Hibernate Partitions on R32?

[Dan Sawyer]

Greg,

There appear to be at least two levels of 'sleep'. The one you are 
probabley entering when you close the lid is suspend. It quesses the 
system to a very low level of power but maintains operation at least of 
the dram.

Hibernate is an alternate form where them memory is actaully written to 
disk and the machine powers off.

On my 600x I can tell the difference by the second green led. In suspend 
it stays on. Suspend actually uses some battery power. Hibernate does not.

Dan

Greg Herlein wrote:

>I have a new R32 Thinkpad that I've installed SuSE 8.0
>on.  Everything seemed to work on SuSE 8.0 except that the
>wireless drivers were old and wrong with SuSE.  
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>I manually upgraded to the stock 2.4.20 kernel to be able to use
>current wireless stuff.  I'll post findings later on what I had
>to do to get everything working.  I do have sound, onboard
>ethernet, X etc working.  Have not played with the modem yet.  
>USB works fine too, though it has not been extensively tested.
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>The special keys are not working at the moment: but I have not
>tried to get the thinkpad modules compiled and runnign yet
>either.
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>When I did the install I blew away the XP and IBM partitions and
>let linux have the whole thing.  Hibernate seems to work OK for
>me though - I close the lid and it sleeps, and it wakes up when I
>open the lid again.
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>The question is, do I lose some functionality by not having the
>special partition?  I suppose that the R32 is keeping ram alive,
>which of course is more power than if it could just sluff it all
>off to disk and power down all memory.
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>Comments welcome.
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>Greg
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