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Jeffrey S. Schwartz wrote: > The BIOS is upgraded by a seperate disk sytps*.exe. The ps2 commands > alow you to configure the system & power mgt through s/w. > > On Wed, 08 Jan 1997 13:17:22 -0700, Steve Hultquist wrote: > >You need (at least) the apm modules loaded to get suspend/resume to > >work. You probably also have to use PS2 on a DOS diskette to update the > >BIOS (I don't know this, tho, since I haven't been able to try Linux on > >my new Thinkpad, yet). OK. BIOS may be a bit of an oversimplification. What I mean is that PS/2 configures the non-volatile power management information. You don't have a PS2 equivalent on Linux, so you have to rely on the DOS version. However, the settings are persistent even when you change OS. Does that make it clearer? ssh -- Steve Hultquist, Founder Worldwide Solutions, Inc. Electronic Business Engineering Boulder, Colorado mailto:ssh@wwsi.com +1.303.581.0800 http://www.wwsi.com/