12 Nov 1999 johnsonm   » (Master)

Tracked down a system hang with ACPI on an Acer notebook (not specific to Acer, it appears to be a kernel bug, may be a mismatch between kernel and possibly buggy ACPI implementation). Discovered that some machines that offer a soft S5 (soft off) state don't appear to actually implement it. sigh.

Found a bug in aboot. msw tracked it down to aboot not knowing about changes to the ext2 filesystem. Helped fix it.

Made sawmill build on machines without X running by embedding Xvfb in the spec file. Had to search for available X displays carefully to avoid a race condition.

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