Re: AMD linux Laptop

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From: Hamid Misnan
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:00

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On Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:51:37 GMT, John Hasler wrote:
>Hamid Misnan writes:
>> You dunnot need them, Linux has the feature built into the kernel.
>
>Yes.  It always has.
>
>> Surely in Linux you need to enable APM for this feature to work.
>
>No.  It uses the 'hlt' instruction, which has nothing to do with APM.

I may be wrong, but I was based my finding from Configure.help inside
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/. Anyway, we got the message across, Linux doesn't
need Rain or Waterfall for it :)

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From: mhmsys@pc.jaring.donotspam.my (Hamid Misnan)
Subject: Re: AMD linux Laptop
Date: 2000/07/12
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