apm problems on thinkpad
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I never use suspend with Linux because I haven't take the time to investigate whether I need a separate suspend partition
I think we have terminological problems here. I know that the various kinds of sedation are termed differently by different manufacturers, but usually:
'standby' refers to a state of mildly reduced power consumption which can be ended immediately;
'suspend' refers to a state of severely reduced power consumption in which peripherals are switched off but the CPU and RAM are kept powered up;
'hibernation' refers to a state of zero power consumption in which the entire system state is saved to disk and the machine is powered off.
On a ThinkPad, standby seems to consist of the screen being switched off. Suspend and hibernation are as described above.