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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