Raider wrote: >Hello! > >I recently upgraded my computer from a k6-2 to a Duron and moved on from >an AT power source to an ATX power source. > >I've seen that you can suspend your computer by just hitting the power >button... and turn it back on by hitting the same button. I've seen >this on an Win2k box. > >Can this be done on my MDK8.2 as well? I don't need all the reboot as I >rarely change anything in the hardware configuration. And I would also >like to turn off my computer from time to time and turn it back on >without waiting for all the config files to be run. > >Raider > > > No, that depends on ACPI, a "standard" imposed on the computing community by Intel which has at best alpha support in linux kernels.
As a matter of fact ACPI can cause a host of problems for the linux kernel at this time, like being unable to awaken from power saving and like stacking every single device on the same interrupt. Disable it in the BIOS and adjust on Win2K for its absence, if you want linux to run as linux should, without problems for potentially years at a time. My gateway/web-server is still up (and still has a GUI runing on it) after 7 months. Civileme
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