From: Dave J. <da...@su...> - 2002-02-07 00:34:10
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 09:03:10AM +0900, ti...@ja... wrote: > > What do you need to do with Satellite 5005-S504? My personal suggestion is > don't bother with linux on it. It will not work, not now, not ever. Keep > the (original toshiba supplied) WinXP install on it, and be happy. > ... > (and will never be able to) do this with Linux, you won't be able to use > it from linux anyway And you can back up this claim how ? Any power management XP is doing is extremely likely to be done through ACPI. If current ACPI code isn't good enough to cope with whatever the AML defines, saying "It'll never be able to do it" is not only unproductive, but is likely to be complete crap. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs |