Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:30:27 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: unwanted disk access by the kernel? |
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 07:02:30PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > By the way, if I enable 'APM makes CPU idle calls when idle,' I get a > > constant stream of 'apm_do_idle failed (3)' messages. APM also doesn't seem > > to be able to power the machine down... This is a Dell Inspiron 7500... > > Maybe I should try ACPI? > > ACPI is a bit experimental right now but if you want some fun then obviously > the more people who break the ACPI code the better.
For my uses (basically just power down) ACPI has worked on 99% of my machines (mix of pii & piii). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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