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+README.SLACKWARE
+20081130 - rworkman@slackware.com
+
+===============================================================================
+PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE FILE BEFORE REPORTING PROBLEMS OR ASKING FOR HELP!
+===============================================================================
+
+One of these routines should tell you whether any of the operations
+are supported by your current kernel/userspace at all:
+
+  for i in hibernate suspend suspend-hybrid ; do
+    pm-is-supported --$i \
+      && echo "$i is supported" \
+      || echo "$i is not supported" ;
+  done
+
+  *OR*
+
+  cat /sys/power/state
+
+Assuming they are supported, running "pm-suspend" as root should do a suspend
+to ram, and "pm-hibernate" should suspend to disk. Note that you must have a 
+swap partition (or file, but partition is easier) which is large enough 
+(2x ram is good here) and the relevant initrd lines and such for this to work. 
+If you're not familiar with all of that, don't test pm-hibernate.
+I don't have hardware which supports suspend-hybrid, so I have no idea if/how
+it works at all.
+
+Here's the short version of using suspend to disk:
+
+Stanza in /etc/lilo.conf should look something like this:
+  image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-smp-2.6.26.7-smp
+    initrd = /boot/initrd.gz
+    append = "resume=/dev/hda2"
+    root = /dev/hda1
+    label = Slackware
+    read-only
+
+/etc/mkinitrd.conf should look something like this:
+  MODULE_LIST="jfs"
+  ROOTDEV="/dev/hda1"
+  ROOTFS="jfs"
+  RESUMEDEV="/dev/hda2"
+
+mkinitrd command invocation would be this:
+  mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.26.7-smp -F
+
+All of the above assumes at least a cursory understanding of what those
+commands and parameters do. If it's not clear, don't attempt it on a
+system that you can't easily reinstall without concern.
+
+==============================================================================
+
+If it works for you, and/or you want to automate it a bit, you'll find
+some sample acpi event declarations and scripts here:
+  http://rlworkman.net/conf/acpi/
+A better option is to use a power manager daemon, but unless you happen to be
+running gnome or one of the pre-release xfce-4.6 builds, that's not an option.
+I'm not sure whether kde's klaptop supports pm-utils or not, so feedback in
+this area is encouraged.
+
+==============================================================================
+
+If it doesn't work by default for you, consider having a look at
+  http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-suspend-index.html
+for some debugging hints.  Pay particular attention to this page:
+  http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-suspend-try.html
+If you are able to get your machine to suspend/resume correctly by passing
+additional quirks on the command line, then I would like to know about it so
+that upstream hal-info can get the correct information to use.  Please email
+the make/model and other relevant information about your machine along with
+the full output of "lshal" and "lspci" attached, and what extra quirks you
+needed to add for successful suspend/resume to rworkman@slackware.com
+
+==============================================================================
+
+If you need the system to do certain operations before going to sleep and
+then undo them (or perhaps do something new) when waking back up, pm-utils
+supports something called "hooks."  The hooks installed by packages (not only
+pm-utils itself) should be in /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/, while any hooks 
+installed by the local system administrator (e.g. things that are only an
+issue on that one machine) should be in /etc/pm/sleep.d/.
+
+Looking at some of the existing hooks should give you a decent idea of their
+capabilities; as a head start, the functions used in the hooks are declared 
+in /usr/lib/pm-utils/functions, which is inherited elsewhere by 
+/usr/lib/pm-utils/pm-functions
+
+One way to contribute to pm-utils indirectly is by writing and sending any
+needed hooks scripts to upstream projects; as an example, the hook that 
+ships with wicd was contributed by me.  Ideally, the pm-utils package should
+have a very minimum number of hooks shipped with it, as they should ship with
+the package to which the hook pertains; for example, the grub package would
+ship its own hook.
+
+==============================================================================
+
+We have removed several hooks from the default upstream package in response
+to a discussion on the pm-utils mailing list; see the source directory of
+pm-utils for details, and if you happen to need any of the removed hooks,
+most of them are in /usr/doc/pm-utils-*/extra_hooks/
+
+==============================================================================
+
+KNOWN BUGS
+
+If your alsa drivers don't correctly save and restore state across a sleep /
+resume cycle (due to a buggy driver), then you will need to add the drivers
+to a custom file named /etc/pm/config.d/defaults (create the file if it does
+not exist already) in a variable named "SUSPEND_MODULES" - see the file at
+/usr/lib/pm-utils/defaults for proper format.
+
+==============================================================================
+