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The Ghost in the Power State

S3 entry: PASSED S3 resume: PASSED Device power map: CONSISTENT She leaned back. The ghost in the power state had been tamed—not by fixing the firmware, but by building a driver that was smarter, more paranoid, and more patient than the hardware it drove. acpi driver for nt

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The problem was simple in its horror. On a standard Intel box, NT 4.0 could turn off the display. But it couldn’t sleep. It couldn’t throttle the CPU. And when you hit the power button, you had to pray. The Ghost in the Power State S3 entry:

The next morning, Mark asked, “Will it ship?” “Will it ship?”