Fedora for laptops ... Re: Dell Precision M60 LapTop (Built-in Wireless) support
Will Cohen
wcohen at redhat.com
Tue Nov 18 20:08:45 UTC 2003
Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:54:55 -0500
> "Jonathan C. Sitte" <jcsitte at staticnull.org> wrote:
>
>
>>Gregory Gulik wrote:
>>| One of these days I'm going to try to get the swsusp patches to work
>>| with the Fedora kernel on my newer ACPI based laptop.
>>
>>What are you waiting for? :)
>
>
> What are the advantages of the swsusp over a laptop's own
> hibernate function(provided the laptop's own hibernate function works with
> Linux)? All I have to do is hit Fn-F12 - or just hit the power switch - on
> my computer and it hibernates (suspend-to-disk). What do I get by trying
> to get swsusp working?
On the Dell Inspiron 4100 there the BIOS suspend to disk is limited to
768M of RAM, but the laptop can hold 1GB of memory. Thus, for some
configurations of Dell Inspiron 4100 the BIOS suspend-to-disk will not
work. I assume that the swsusp would not suffer from that limitation.
-Will
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