The box I'm on now Has acpi support on the mainboard. It dual boots winme and linux, and winblows supports acpi fully. It does everything acpi related that I need it to. ------------------------------- Alex Snow Email: alex_snow at gmx.net BBS: telnet://bbs1.dyndns.org web: http://web.alex-snow.dhs.org The Computer Repair Guy: If It Ain't Broke, I'll mess With It Till It Is! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 7:06 PM Subject: Re: acpi and the str/s3 state > Well, this wouldn't be the first thing that windows can't do properly. In fact, that thought did pass through my mind, but I wanted to see what some on this list might say. > > The machine isn't a laptop, but I thought acpi was a pretty cool feature. Maybe I'll just disable standby, and let it run. > Greg > > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 06:31:43PM -0400, Scott Howell wrote: > > I ain't no expert, but I hear tell that if you leave windows in that > > kinda state, things can get hosed. Windows apparently does not handle > > power management matters as well as they'd like you to believe. Of > > course to inject my two cents worth, why would you want to put the > > machine in this state. Maybe a laptop, but a desktop box suffers no ill > > affects from being left on 24 hours a day, but for fans having a little > > shorter life. I think for all this just turn the machine off all > > together. > > > > Scott > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
