> I really didn't want to reply to this thread but. .. I have Debian Linux
> installed on a Fujitsu subnotebook (3 or 4 years old now I guess) and it
> has been running now for months.  I just close it as you say and it
> suspends everything other than RAM refresh and some timer related
> functions.  Then after an hour of that it automatically writes RAM to a
> special partition on the disk and shuts down.  In either case if I open
> the subnote again it comes right back up to where I left it (with a few
> seconds delay for loading RAM back if it has hibernated).  However I
> should not that software in BIOS is doing most of the work here and the
> installed OS is largely irrelevant.

I use Windows XP on my Dell Lattitude and that's pretty much how I
work too. If I close the lid and it's plugged in, it just suspends. If
I unplug, then it will eventually hibernate. I have the occaisonal
quirk, where it won't find my WiFi connection after resuming, but I
just suspend/resume again and it's fine.

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Dave Hylands
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