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... -- James Wilkinson | "What kind of music do you get here, ma'am?" Exeter Devon UK | "Why, we get both kinds of music, Country and E-mail address: james | Western." @westexe.demon.co.uk |
