----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Sawtell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 7:07 PM Subject: Re: CLUG Clinic Meeting - Monday 30 June 2003
> On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 18:26, you wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Christopher Sawtell" > > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 3:20 PM > > Subject: CLUG Clinic Meeting - Monday 30 June 2003 > > > > > > [...] > > > > > Members who need help to sort out problems, please make you needs > > > known. > > > > I > > > > > think the capacity of the mains supply limits the number of machines to > > > > about > > > > > 8 or 9 concurrent connections. Is that correct? So it's first come first > > > served. > > > > [...] > > > > I've still been unable to get the power management on my laptop working > > under linux, so if anyone could give me a hand with that it would be > > appreciated... > > What distro? Mandrake 9.1 > What laptop? Its a (fairly new) Dell Inspiron N2800X (I think its called) P4 processor... > Make sure that either the apm module is loaded as soon as poss in the boot up > sequence, or compiled into the kernel. Hmm, I think it loads fairly early in the boot up. I had asked previously on the list about it but to no avail. > > Laptops don't consume ( much ) power, so they don't count towards the numbers > limit. Yeah, I realised that (I can just run it on battery anyway) but thought I'd mention it anyway. Thanks for the help, -Nick.
