S3 is suspend to RAM (MS calls it standby, IIR) S4 is suspend to disk (MS calls it hibernate) you can enter either state directly via # echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep # echo 4 > /proc/acpi/sleep or equivalently # echo mem > /sys/power/state # echo disk > /sys/power state cheers, -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-laptop" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html