Newbie help

[Hodgins Family]

Good morning!

On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 17:36 +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 09:32 -0700, Hodgins Family wrote:
> 
> > And yeah, how hard is it to have an OS monitor the power switch so
> > that when the switch is hit, the OS goes into shutdown?
> 
> It's called ACPI and is quite standard nowadays in windows, linux and
> other operating systems...
> -- 
> Dennis K.
>   And that's the way the cookie crumbles!

Hmmm. Talking about cookies. What's under the hood of this ancient 1999
box? 
Log out. Reboot. Del Key. Password.
Power Management.
Ah ha! ACPI. Yes! Disabled by default? Oh. Odd.

Thanks Dennis. My old box is in fact ACPI-aware. I wasn't!

Have a great day.

Rob
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