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Article #16903Re: Green OS/2?
From: Nev..
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 00:00
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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 05:39:24, ih8.spam@dont.try.it (Michael Block) wrote: -> On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 23:06:57, rolan@ibm.net.nospam (Rolan) wrote: -> &&&>I'm just interested in finding out whether OS/2 actually -> &&&>supports sleep/suspend mode for PCs. Is this done through -> &&&>APM and does it kick in after a certain amount of screen saver -> &&&>activity, or is it all hardware based set through the BIOS? -> &&&> -> &&&>TIA, -> &&&>Randy -> there is a 'power' icon that appears in system setup if you install -> APM. You can open it and select suspend from the program menu. I -> haven't worked out how to add it to the desktop properties menu as the -> power function is a DLL. Similarly I don't know how to enable it -> automatically after a period of disk inactivity. Everytime I try BIOS -> controlled features like disk power-down it just makes OS/2 very -> unstable. For some (unknown) reason using this method my screen goes blank for a few seconds then comes to life again, same goes when i use the standby or suspend options from PMAPM. Anyone know a way to fix this ? Running Warp4 on a BX PII mb with bios apm options set on. Nev.. remove the xxx from email address to reply blame the spammers for the inconvenience
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1044c2,23f6b2b2e726d4af X-Google-Attributes: gid1044c2,public X-Google-Thread: 112d6c,23f6b2b2e726d4af X-Google-Attributes: gid112d6c,public X-Google-Thread: 10a752,23f6b2b2e726d4af X-Google-Attributes: gid10a752,public From: idiotxxx@mindless.com (Nev..) Subject: Re: Green OS/2? Date: 1999/03/26 Message-ID: <ZSSxpDOuFnh7-pn2-Dub7tOXuCBiw@localhost> X-Deja-AN: 459232011 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <7cs0uh$it4$1@macserv3.macquarie.com.au> <Eptizitgfvun-pn2-yJebnhKqHzwx@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: 26 Mar 1999 16:29:16 -1100, 203.34.169.35 MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: idiotxxx@mindless.com Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,aus.computers.os2,comp.os.os2.apps