Re: [SLE] Dell Laptops and APM.

On Sunday 30 December 2001 11:50 am, you wrote:

Has anyone heard of having to create a seperate partition for APM to work on Dell laptops? I was told that this little slice had to be created so that Linux could write info to it when it hybernated.

I've never heard this before and I'm wondering if it's crap.

It's not crap. I have just such a partition on my Dell laptop and it's very useful. If you just shut the lid it suspends to RAM, which is OK for a day or two. If you suspend to disk, or you leave the suspend to RAM suspended too long, it'll dump the entire contents of memory to the disk partition. This takes longer to save and restore (a couple of minutes on my 512MB machine) but it makes the suspend "permanent". It's really useful!