RE: APM/ACPI

From: Grover, Andrew (andrew.grover@intel.com)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 23:06:34 EST


Sean,

ACPI isn't ready for widespread consumption yet.

If you want to help us, check out
http://phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de/acpi/ and send a proper bug report
to the acpi mailing list.

Regards -- Andy
ACPI maintainer

> From: Sean Middleditch [mailto:elanthis@awesomeplay.com]
> Erg, hrm. In 2.4.13 (Debian version, Linux tree I think) I enabled
> ACPI, disabled APM. The latop locks up when the base ACPI support is
> loaded.
>
> How should I go about debugging this? I want this working.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean Etc.
>
> On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 13:50, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > OK, so there's a good chance then that if I compile in
> ACPI I can have
> > > things work OK. Do I need something besides apmd to
> handle all that?
> > > Will stuff like the GNOME battery applet still work?
> >
> > If you compile in ACPI your box might work. You will need different
> > (development) tools and suspend wont work yet. ACPI is
> getting to the
> > useful point but not quite there - expect an adventure
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