Re: [MLUG] apm (I think..)

[Dave McBride <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Congrats on your upcoming defense! I'm writing mine and plan to defend
this spring.

Re. distros--being in a similar boat about redhat, I got the SuSE ftp
install a couple weeks ago (free). Aside from a pokey ftp server, it
went great, and it seems to be an improvement over RH in many ways (like
sound support). I installed it in some spare hd space and have been
booting to it, getting things configured gradually when I have time. I
figure I'll just move it up when the time is right.

Re. OS X/Mac: I got a powerbook last fall and think it's great. Main
drawback is that M$Orifice seems to be the only viable choice on Mac (I
know there's OpenOffice, but it's kinda clumsy and slow). I'd love to
hear there's something else...

Cheers,
Dave

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 08:44, Daniel Goldstein wrote:
> Thanks for the response and the information on the link you sent.
>  I am running RH 7.3 with XFree86 Version 4.2.1 (Red Hat Linux release: 
> 4.2.1-13.73.23)
> This M50 has a NVIDIA graphics card.   It looks like things might run 
> better with everything
> upgraded to  RH9.0 but I am in the middle of a crunch now and I can't be 
> without the machine for
> a day or two (or more if there are complications in the upgrade). On top 
> of that with RH9.0 support gone
> I am not sure I want to do it. I was hoping to fix this problem within 
> RH7.3 without upgrading everything.
> 
> I know there has been a lot of discussion about distributions. I would 
> consider buying suse but not until
> I have time to really do the upgrade right. (i.e. after I defend my 
> dissertation... )
> 
> Dan
> 
> PS. A G5 Mac with MacOS 10 is looking interesting? (Just a jab to see if 
> anyone has opinions...)
> 
> 
> Suman Kanuganti wrote:
> 
> >What version of XFree does it have? Get latest XFree and what graphics card 
> >does your M50 has? If nvidia or ati, get the latest drivers. 
> >APM should be fair enough than ACPI to fix.
> >
> >If radeon, refer this is of any help,
> >http://www.missouri.edu/~skhcf/radeon/
> >
> >Suman K
> >
> >On Thursday 29 January 2004 07:03, Daniel Goldstein wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>HI
> >>   I am trying to figure something out that has annoyed me for a while.
> >>I have a Dell M50 notebook running
> >>RH7.3. When I run on the battery if the keyboard is inactive for a few
> >>minutes the screen dims and then goes blank.
> >>This is ok but when I hit a key it wakes up but the Xserver always comes
> >>back with 640x480 resolution.
> >>I think this may be controlled by apm but I am not sure. Does anyone
> >>have any idea how to set it so
> >>when I hit a key to wake things up the Xserver resolution remains the
> >>same as when it went blank?
> >>
> >>  Thanks for any ideas
> >>
> >>Dan
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  
> >
> 

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