pcmcia eject saves power (was Re: [TriLUG] laptop on-net/off-net)

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 09:48, M. Mueller (bhu5nji) wrote:
> Ejecting the pcmcia will reduce power consumtion, yes?  Would the power 
> manager react to the soft eject and power down the pcmcia? 

Correct. Ejecting the card turns off the power.

> I' pretty sure my Presario has ACPI and not APM.  I haven't figured out how 
> to use the ACPI yet.  I did just find a clue though: 
> http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~gregorrg/compaq/presario17xl470.html

is it completely without APM, or does it have both? In the case of my
Toshiba, it not only doesn't have APM, it doesn't have a user-accessible
BIOS to change settings in. Sooner or later I'll be able to apply the
kernel patches to get both sound and power management working *grin*

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