----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Ears don't work
> bay56 wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 1:46 AM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] Ears don't work
> >
> > > It's a problem with the APM drivers and some motherboards. You,
> > > unfortunately, seem to have one of the many motherboards affected, as
> > > do I at work. There's a fix for it. Here's the URL to the message in
> > > the archives detailing the fix:
> > > http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg11666.html
> >
> > Thanks for that - although to read the message from Axalon - you'd swear
it
> > was a problem with the mother board:
> >
> > $50 cheap mobo indeed - mine was good value at $200, but a $200 mobo
should
> > be good enough for a stinking bug ridden driver - exception taken Ax.
>
> It is a BIOS problem. If you'd like confirmation of it, check the Linux
> Kernel mailing list archives. There was quite a discussion about this
> problem just a few weeks ago.
>
> $200 motherboard or not, the BIOS vendor screwed up their
> implementation.
>
> > So much for being able to set up reasonable cost linux system if he's
right!
> > (which I personally doubt, because it works fine under another OS!)
>
> A quick fix for the problem was already posted (remove the -p from the
> shutdown flags).
>
> Want reasonable priced Linux systems? Try a nice surplus 386 ('course,
> you won't be able to run Mandrake on it). You won't even have APM
> problems with it!
>
> Ranting is one thing, but you've gone a little far...
>
> > Slag my system all you like Ax, just make sure you got right on your
side
> > first. ;-)
>
> And make sure you've really read the messages about HOW to fix the
> problem before feeling insulted about a problem which DOES exist on your
> system.
You know I just wrote you the stinking reply you deserved for a lot of
that - and then used
some intelligence, and trashed it (it was a belter too!) - fact is a lot of
what you say is based
on some incorrect assumptions - things about my system you could not
possibly know, actions which I might have taken which you do not know about.
Mostly though if you ever want to upset me, then get judgemental - that'll
do it every time - but it will get ugly at that point - you have been
warned! ;-)
A good number of the questions you posed seemed to be rhetoric or at least
show
great potential for it, but if you care to post those you really would have
liked
an answer to, then I'll naturally spend time on them.
Just remember, one OS involved does issue a shutdown, and the machine does.
For that reason there's only so far I CAN go go along with your theory.
Regards,
Ian
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