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  From: Christian Zoz <zoz@suse.de>
  To  : Sven Kirmess <sven.kirmess@gmx.net>
  Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 18:09:39 +0100 (CET)

Re: Suspend to RAM

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Sven Kirmess wrote:

> Thursday, November 04, 1999, 5:05:02 PM, Craig wrote:
> 
> > > Does the apmd support STR (Suspend to RAM) for STR-able boards
> > > like the ASUS P3B-F?
> 
> > It *should*, if the board conforms to the APM specification.
> 
> > The most important thing is to be sure that your Linux kernel is
> > compiled with APM support. I think it is usually *not* in most
> > commercial Linuces for compatibility reasons.
> 
> > The second most important thing is to have the apmd package. It's
> > not necessary to run the apmd daemon, which provides battery logging
> > and more flexible event handling. The package also contains the
> > "apm" command which has options like "--standby" and "--suspend", so
> > you can suspend by hand if you need.
> 
> AFAIK suspend is only a powersaving mode, but the system sill works.

That is Standby (apm -S, apm --standby)

> With suspend to RAM the system consumes only about 5 W. 

Taht is Suspend (apm -s, apm --suspend)

> It's
> comparable to Suspend to disk, but the RAM isn't copied to the disk.
> 
> The Suspend mode usees normaly abut 50 W.
> 

And this powersaving Suspend works on every Laptop i ever had, but i don't
know about ASUS P3B-F.

There is even a try to suspend to disk at
http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp.html


ciao, christian