[Techtalk] Linux on a laptop problem

[H. Peter Anvin]

Val Henson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:15:14PM -0700, Hanna Linder wrote:
> 
>>It is getting easier. I have RedHat 7.2 with the "laptop" kernel
>>installed on my T21 and it works quite well. Granted, I dont put
>>it in hibernate or else it hangs...
> 
> 
> Hibernate == suspend to disk?
> 
> A few years back, I had a Sony Vaio with the proper disk partition to
> support this, but my new laptop arrived with the whole disk
> partitioned up and no room for that wacky Windows-esque suspend
> partition.  I'm planning on reinstalling soon (wasn't going to do it
> before OLS) and attempting to get suspend to disk working - anyone
> done this, or have any tips on it?
> 

The one that uses a partition is BIOS-based.  Unfortunately, a lot of
systems these days use Windows-based hibernate/StD which doesn't use a
partition, nor has any firmware support.

	-hpa