On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 06:48, Eric Wood wrote: > Could some offer a resource to where I can learn the answers to these > questions: > > 1. Is there an active mailing list for APM/ACPI issues? There's a sourceforge site. > 2. Is ACPI mature now-a-days even thought there seem to be conflicting > standards? Yes and no. I've been patching it in since the 8.0 days. Neve got any lock with APM. Always worked for me, and APM never did. > 3. Like APM, is ACPI compiled into RH 9 kernels by default? (ie, gkrellm > tells me my kernel doesn't support ACPI, so I think the answer is "no".) Nope. It's not really usable in the stock kernel either. > 4. Can I totally do away with APM and use ACPI? Or is ACPI dependant upon > APM? I'm doing it for years, even on my desktops. > 5. What are some tricks I can do with APM/ACPI to prove things are working? dmesg. > Another vaio laptop users said he enabled ACPI "resulting in significant > heat and power use reduction". Not here, but I can use battstat to check the battery charge... > Thanks, > -eric wood -- Z <zleite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
