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Revision as of 02:23, 6 December 2004
Contents
Preface
I installed hoary (Category:Ubuntu "unstable") because of some specific needs. Netherless, this article should apply to Ubuntu 4.10 "The Warty Warthog" too.
Everything seems to work very fine.
See [Henrik Brix Andersen] page for a lot of useful information.
Choosing between APM and ACPI
Right now there is a crucial feature not working with ACPI on linux (2.6.9): suspend to ram does not switch off the LCD backlight. Ubuntu ships with ACPI enabled, but without ACPI suspend-to-disk being configured. In effect suspend is not working out of the box.
(maybe ACPI works better with acpi_sleep=s3_bios)
Simply disableing ACPI at boottime activates APM which works fine with suspend to ram and suspend to disk.
APM based suspend to disk needs a save2disk.img hibernation file on FAT16. See below.
Installing without cdrom or floppy
Follow the instructions at UbuntuSupport: Netboot remarks
Disableing ACPI
To disable ACPI an activate APM boot your kernel with acpi=off
...describe how to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst...
Creating a APM hibernation file
Use tphdisk utility to create a save2disk.img file on a hidden FAT16 partition,
