On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:44:20AM -0600, Cam Desautels wrote: > > What advantage is gained from turning ACPI off? This is switching a laptop to APM for a power managment. For some laptops this is exactly what doctor prescribed and for other this is an instant killer. Depends really on your BIOS, and what kind of bugs are hidden there, so it is hard to call that "advantage". Newer models tend to lean towards ACPI but you still _may_ have working APM. ACPI is big and convoluted beast and BIOS writers are not famous for a quality of their code. OTOH I have seen laptops where APM is still nominally there but you definitely do not want to use it. Michal