[ale] acpi/apm/hibernate/suspend/et al

[Jim Popovitch]

Actually that seems a bit confusing.  Hibernate will store a memory image on
your disk and then poweroff.  Suspend will drop to minimal power and wait
there until the battery dies. ;)

-Jim P.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James P. Kinney III
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 May, 2003 22:15
> To: Atlanta Linux User Group (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [ale] acpi/apm/hibernate/suspend/et al
>
> Suspend to disk writes a copy of RAM to a temp file then shuts down the
> box with a bit set (somewhere, I don't know this part) that tells the
> box on reboot to NOT do it's usual boot, but go to the hard drive sector
> XYZ and copy to RAM.
>
> Hibernate is a very low power mode. The system is still running, but the
> hard drives are stopped, the RAM refresh rate is as low as it can go,
> the clock speed on the CPU is dropped from the MHz/GHz range down to the
> low KHz, and the monitor is put to sleep in a power of mode.
>

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