Reasons to preseve X on tty7

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 17:23:42 UTC 2008


Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 07:56 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Apple has had this right for years - you could close/open the old g4 
>> powerbooks and they'd be ready in seconds and you can just click 'sleep' 
>> on the others for the same effect.
> 
> Yes, it's very easy for Apple to get this right. Because they control
> the hardware platform. We don't have that luxury. We're lucky if we even
> get hardware documentation.

I haven't had any trouble with Windows either for the last few years but 
my experience is limited to Dell and Ibm laptops. I believe there is 
some vendor-supplied code that makes it work reliably.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com






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