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  From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>
  To  : Steve Dodd <sdodd@isgtec.com>
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  Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 17:13:01 -0500

Re: APM Vs. ACPI

On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 03:13:00PM -0500, Steve Dodd wrote:

> I have an Asus P5A motherboard that has "sleep" mode; I want to be able
> to have "halt" put the mobo into "sleep" mode.  

I don't know about doing this on "halt", but you can use:

	apm --suspend
	
for very nearly the same effect (I think?)

Poweroff-on-halt is an APM feature.  It works on my laptop, not sure about
an Asus.

> - If not does anybody have any idea where I could find documentation
> neccessary to implement such functionality?

developer.intel.com has some ACPI documents somewhere.

> Also, the P5A bios has hooks to feed the temperature of the cpu, and
> mobo to the os; does anyone know of any documentation on this (ie.
> programming interface docs)?

That may be ACPI stuff, I don't know.

Have fun,

Avery