Chuck Milam wrote: > On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Lorry wrote: > > > > On a related note, has any tried the "Software Suspend" feature included > > > in later 2.5 kernels? > > > > My laptop hibernates when I put the top down, and I'm using 2.4.9-31. > > How is this different? Guess I don't know anything about this either... > > Is this something like a "suspend to disk" so you can shut down the > machine completely, and then bring it back to the exact point you were at > when you power up the laptop again? > Yes, except this is accomplished by the kernel software, instead of by the APM (or ACPI, except linux doesn't support this feature for ACPI yet) bios. At least, that is my understanding of it. --Nathan Davis