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Date:      Sun, 22 Mar 1998 14:25:48 -0800
From:      Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, finger@mindless.com
Cc:        "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to shutdown the laptop...
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.19980322142548.03656b34@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980323091057.18139@welearn.com.au>
References:  <3515856C.B3FE9339@bln.de> <3515856C.B3FE9339@bln.de>

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At 09:10 AM 3/23/98 +1100, Sue Blake wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 22, 1998 at 10:41:01PM +0100, Alexander Finger wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.5 on my AcerNote 370pcx Laptop, everything works
>> fine.... but I can't "zzz" my laptop... if I try, the machine hangs up
>> completely without any "famous last words...." or something else...
>
>Well that certainly sounds like the kind of question we need to help you
>sort out. I'm not sure which list it should go to, but first, what's "zzz"?
>What exactly do you do to the machine, and how does it respond then?
>Can you give us some more details?

zzz is the suspend command. Since you have a laptop, you should get PAO at
www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO so you get better APM and PCMCIA support.

>> I'm not sure if this question is right here (newbie enough or too
>> technical... // something else) so if I'm completely off-topic, please
>> give me a hint where I have to ask...

This would be something for the freebsd-mobile mailing list.

--Ludwig Pummer
ludwigp@bigfoot.com   ICQ UIN: 692441   http://chipweb.home.ml.org


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