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Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:54:43 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: How was Warpstock ?

In <3F996090.5BF4@peterskye.com>, on 10/24/03
at 10:24 AM, Peter Skye said:

>I only use desktop machines and thus have never paid any attention to
>ACPI. Is the problem that existing drivers must be modified to sense
>when power management should begin?

When you get around to reading about it, you will find that ACPI is more
than just power management. The C is for Configuration. Eventually all
MBs will require an ACPI compliant OS to operate them.

> http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/acpi/acpi_howto.txt

A better resource would be:

<http://www.acpi.info>

Regards,

Steven

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