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Re: Will wine|win4lin|VMWare save my XP bacon?



On (31/03/06 15:59), Paul Johnson wrote:
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> From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
> Subject: Re: Will wine|win4lin|VMWare save my XP bacon?
> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:59:49 -0800
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> On Friday 31 March 2006 12:11, John wrote:
> > I'd appreciate advice on whether wine, win4lin, VMWare or some other
> > route might get me out of a bind. I'm embarrassed, but here's what I
> > did:
> >
> > At the start, my ThinkPad (A31) was dual booted via grub, Windows XP
> > on /dev/hda1, sid on the rest, 2.6.15-homemade kernel.
> 
> Is power management working on yours?  If so, how did you get it to work? I 
> have an A31 that's just begging to have the Windows zapped out of it.

I do not have power management working. I monkeyed around with various
suggestions from http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_ACPI_work,
but with little success. I did manage to put the think to sleep, but
had to reboot to wake it up. So I gave up. Until next time.

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