From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17MGDy-0001Lw-00 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 18:52:50 -0400 Received: (qmail 9781 invoked by uid 0); 23 Jun 2002 22:52:21 -0000 Received: from dhcp250-10-151-24.nt01-c5.cpe.charter-ne.com (HELO computer) (24.151.10.250) by mail.gmx.net (mp015-rz3) with SMTP; 23 Jun 2002 22:52:21 -0000 Message-ID: <001401c21b08$793ca0e0$fa0a9718@nt.charterne.com> From: "Alex Snow" To: References: <20020623124505.A18620@romuald.net.eu.org> <20020623223143.GA15162@lrxms.net> Subject: Re: acpi and the str/s3 state Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 18:51:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Reply-To: "Alex Snow" List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: My box will do suspend, hibernate, shutdown, ... all that acpi stuff. Windows 98 will not handle acpi as well as windows ME. That's probably the only + in ME. ------------------------------- Alex Snow Email: alex_snow@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: "Scott Howell" To: Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 6:31 PM Subject: Re: acpi and the str/s3 state > 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@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >