Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Feb 1999 13:23:03 +0100 (CET) | From | Pancho Horrillo <> | Subject | Re: APM-Bios: No poweroff on Gigabyte m/b w/ Suspend to disk in BIOS |
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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Mattthew D. Pitts wrote:
> On my CTX EzBook with Phoenix APM BIOS, with suspend to disk, I had to > create the partition with an included utility before it would work. This > may seem like a dumb question, but does the documentation mention something > similar? > Yes, Gigabyte provides an utility to set-up the part in the hard disk, but this is not the point, since the problem is _halting_ the system, not _suspending_ it. The question is that Windoze APM driver can cope with this BIOS and power-off the computer, but Linux fails to do it. I guess that the BIOS sets the things up a bit 'out of standard'.
Thanks
Any ideas?
-- Pancho Horrillo pancho@atdot.org
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