Re: Solaris 10 on a Hp / Compaq nx9005 laptop

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 05/29/05 

Date: 29 May 2005 09:15:21 GMT

js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) writes:

>Let me give an example: before build 14, I could not poweroff my IBM
>T42p in case the ethernet cable was powered. Not it is no problem
>to switch it off with init 5 or poweroff.

Many systems which required some form of workaround to poweroff
or failed to pwoer off at all started working when we switched
to the Intel ACPICA implementation in build 14 of "Solaris Nevada".

(And with support for the Embedded Controller, ACPI battery status
and such is easily readable)

Casper 

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