On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 14:02, D. D. Brierton wrote: > First, I have to admit that I don't really understand the difference > between APM and ACPI. Well I've now read: ACPI-HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ACPI-HOWTO/index.html Battery-Powered-HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Battery-Powered/index.html Laptop-HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Laptop-HOWTO.html I think I now understand the difference between ACPI and APM. However, the above documents are a little out of date and don't really cover what's in the latest kernels with regard to ACPI. > It seems that both are started as services, > although whilst apmd returns OK at boot it seems somewhat silent on its > status: > > # service acpid status > acpid (pid 2248) is running... > # service apmd status > # > > Do I actually want both running at the same time? Does anyone know the answer to this? My clean install of FC2 enabled both of these services -- I didn't: # chkconfig --list acpid acpid 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off # chkconfig --list apmd apmd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================
