> ACPI is very complex, there is some sort of programming language needed for
> communication with the BIOS, and to make things even more challenging many
> laptops get it wrong in subtle ways because there wasn't much OS support to
> test it with at the time they were designed!
Well, they fai
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:58, Heather wrote:
> The choice of experimenting with crappy APM (because the Beast From Redmond
> implements ACPI so much better than they implement APM, hardware
> manufacturers no longer properly regression test it; I have first hand
> experience with that issue) ...
>
>
> True, but I think it should be noted that there's only one likely situation
> of serious data loss that seems to be known with APM (that's related to DMA
> driven IDE drives operating at the time of suspend).
Everybody in the world who has a "crashes when tries to resume" problem has
experien
Ofoo Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 06:47:04AM -0800, Serge Rey wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm running testing on a vaio z505r with X 4. this was all running
> fine. my problem started after doing a new kernel (2.4.17) to try to
> get a backpack cdrw working through the parallel port. installing the
> new kernel is
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:58, Heather wrote:
> The choice of experimenting with crappy APM (because the Beast From Redmond
> implements ACPI so much better than they implement APM, hardware
> manufacturers no longer properly regression test it; I have first hand
> experience with that issue) ...
>
>
> True, but I think it should be noted that there's only one likely situation
> of serious data loss that seems to be known with APM (that's related to DMA
> driven IDE drives operating at the time of suspend).
Everybody in the world who has a "crashes when tries to resume" problem has
experie
Ofoo Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 06:47:04AM -0800, Serge Rey wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm running testing on a vaio z505r with X 4. this was all running
> fine. my problem started after doing a new kernel (2.4.17) to try to
> get a backpack cdrw working through the parallel port. installing the
> new kernel is
On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 18:20:13 +0200
Vangelis Typaldos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to configure X Windows on my Acer 202TEV . If there's anybody
> who knows technical informations as horizontal / vertical sync frequencies
> , dot clock , H/V timings for my model i would be really happy
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