Fedora for laptops ... Re: Dell Precision M60 LapTop (Built-in Wireless) support

[Will Cohen]

Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:54:55 -0500
> "Jonathan C. Sitte" <jcsitte at staticnull.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Gregory Gulik wrote:
>>| One of these days I'm going to try to get the swsusp patches to work
>>| with the Fedora kernel on my newer ACPI based laptop.
>>
>>What are you waiting for? :)
> 
> 
> What are the advantages of the swsusp over a laptop's own
> hibernate function(provided the laptop's own hibernate function works with
> Linux)? All I have to do is hit Fn-F12 - or just hit the power switch - on
> my computer and it hibernates (suspend-to-disk).  What do I get by trying
> to get swsusp working?

On the Dell Inspiron 4100 there the BIOS suspend to disk is limited to 
768M of RAM, but the laptop can hold 1GB of memory. Thus, for some 
configurations of Dell Inspiron 4100 the  BIOS suspend-to-disk will not 
work. I assume that the swsusp would not suffer from that limitation.

-Will