That said, if you're willing to go off the standard distro RPMS, depending on your computer, you might be able to get ACPI working just fine.
Mark Panen wrote:
There is no support for APM in kernel 766 "apm -S No APM support in kernel"
How would i go about compiling APM support ?
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:19:22 +0000, James Wilkinson <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Michael Scottaline wrote:
Actually, it's working flawlessly for me on a Chembook derivative. but here's the catch. It's quite old and doesn't pass the BIOS test for acpi (older than 2001). So apm handles power management.
FWIW: ACPI is turned off for pre-2001 BIOSes because too many of them are too buggy. That doesn't mean a pre-2001 BIOS *will* be buggy [1]: you can turn it back on using the acpi=force option if you want to experiment.
I used to do that to get my SMP box to auto-power off (APM doesn't work in SMP mode).
[1] Except inasmuch as every program is buggy...
