thanks, now for more questions... Joshua Gimer wrote: > Answers to some of your questions: > > I need to turn acpi=off in the boot so I can turn on apm. How DO I turn > on apm. > > You can turn on apm by starting the apm daemon (apmd). I see the apmd is running. ACPI is on right now. When I issue the command apm, I get: No APM support in kernel I guess that is because acpi is on? There is no /dev/apm or /proc/apm directories. Quite a bit in acpi... > > what suspend command do I use? > > apm --suspend or apm --standby. I am not getting everything it seems from the man and scripts. Which write memory to the swap drive? > If you need more information than that, you might want to try: > > man apm > man apmd > apropos apm