[Discussion] eCS Version 2 Shutdown

[Felmon Davis]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Arthur Menu wrote:

> This something that has puzzled me for some time and for which I have
> received no satisfactory answer: Why is it so hard to get os/2-eCS to
> power off a computer? Forget about all the other things ACPI or ATM can
> do--why does this one, apparently simple, function present such
> problems? I mean this isn't proprietary Microsoft code, is it?

people over in Linux are very familiar with difficulties getting ACPI 
to play nice! it's the first thing I suspect when I get a certain kind 
of botched install (on one laptop I couldn't get audio with fiddling 
with acpi settings). my impression is the 'standard' is not very 
standard so you get different behaviors across chips. I was reading 
last night about some problem a person was having under Vista that 
might be acpi-related.

> > I ask this as your typical, ignorant-about-tech-stuff end user.

most of us are bewildered.

>
> Arthur

F.

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Felmon Davis

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