laptop standby

[Benjamin Roe]

Try:

echo -n "3" > /sys/power/state

but I'd make sure to do a "sync" first, just in case it crashes. You can
see the supported sleep modes by echoing /sys/power/state. 3 is
suspend-to-ram, 4 is suspend to disk (IIRC) - check out

http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/sleep.html

Ben

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:34 +0100, Eyal Oren wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I have a laptop, acpi works fine (battery status, shutdown). I would like to put the laptop in standby, but apm -S
> doesn't work ('No APM support in kernel'); modprobe apm gives 'FATAL: Error inserting apm ... no such device'.
> 
> Does anyone know what's wrong or what I should do to put my laptop in standby?
>