From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joeri Hendrickx Subject: the role of the dstd Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:28:25 +0200 Message-ID: <44EDFDD9.5030504@student.kuleuven.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from assei1bl6.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.133.68]:14252 "EHLO assei1bl6.telenet-ops.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751660AbWHXT1j (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:27:39 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by assei1bl6.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 6065C22011A for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:27:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (d54C094DC.access.telenet.be [84.192.148.220]) by assei1bl6.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E8D2200E0 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:27:38 +0200 (CEST) Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi Since my asus laptop's acpi won't work decently in Linux (lid close won't generate event and such) I've been reading up and I've come to the conclusion that the problem must be a messed up DSTD. I do have some questions about it, though. For one, if the DSTD is part of the BIOS, how come windows does work, while it must rely on the same data (I haven't installed any drivers for power mgt yet lid close does work, and so do the volume butons) If windows knows something we don't, can't we get the correct data from there? Kind regards, J. Hendrickx, hoping to see my suspend to ram working someday