Thanks Mikkel: Since the notebook is a circa 2005 LC2430x, I suspect the thing to do is turn off apmd and let acpid run. Thanks Dana in Philly On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 16:01 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Dana Priesing wrote: > > Looking at the services running on my notebook running FC5 on a P4. Is > > it necessary to have both acpid and apmd running? Doesn't acpi replace > > apm? > > > > TIA, > > > > Dana in Philly > > > Only one will run. Because you can have ether APM or ACPI support, > the service for the support being used runs, and the other service > aborts. The reason to have both services enabled is so that if you > use the boot command line to change between them, the correct > service runs. It also helps if you move the hard drive to another > system, and it supports a different power management then the system > you installed it on. Then there are the systems where ACPI and/or > APM is broken. > > Once I have a system up and runningm I normally turn off the service > that is not being used, but it does not slow booting down much to > have both enabled. > > Mikkel > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
