Re: Using NetBSD on a z50

I recently got an Asus EeePC, which is just about the same size as an H/PC,
but has an x86 processor and is not "kid-specific" like the OLPC.  If you
need a small x86 machine, I'd recommend it.

-Elijah

On Jan 29, 2008 8:31 AM, Forest Bond <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:18:09AM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > On 01/27 11:17 , Scott Lawrence wrote:
> > > The power button seems to put it to sleep, but the backlight remains
> on.  Is
> > > this normal?  Or is there a more correct way to put it to sleep during
> > > travel.
> >
> > this is normal. It's a limitation of the z50 hardware. Only Wince can
> fully
> > suspend it properly, because (as I vaguely remember) the power button
> sends
> > a hardware interrupt or something that jumps to a specific point on the
> ROM,
> > which is Wince. So in order to get this working properly, you'd have to
> > replace the ROM. (At which point, it becomes attractive to go look at a
> new
> > laptop... OLPC is almost as small, and is an x86 box).
> >
> > I really miss the keyboard on my z50 tho... best laptop keyboard I ever
> had.
>
> Yeah, the OLPC laptop is decidedly kid specific.  I can't touch type on
> the
> thing at all.  My son loves it, though.
>
> -Forest
> --
> Forest Bond
> http://www.alittletooquiet.net
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Elijah R.