Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: APM/ACPI | From | Sean Middleditch <> | Date | 02 Nov 2001 13:56:46 -0500 |
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Alrighty! Thank you! I'll play around and see if I can't get it to work. I don't really care about suspend and whatnot at the moment, I just want a warning when my battery is getting low. ~,^
Sean Etc.
On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 13:42, Patrick Mochel wrote: > > On 2 Nov 2001, Sean Middleditch wrote: > > > Hmm, not to point fingers or anything, but... > > > > "The WindowsXP that came preinstalled supported it!" > > Windows XP requires systems to be fully ACPI (1.0b?) compliant. So, you > probably have an ACPII BIOS, though many BIOSes have some remnants of APM > left in them... > > > I dunno, perhaps there is some proprietary protocol? Is ACPI backwards > > compat with APM? I mean, if the laptop doesn't support APM, would that > > mean it can't support ACPI? > > Probably not, no, and no. ACPI support in Linux is still maturing, and > many things still do not work. I would recommend the ACPI mailing list and > archives for more assistance: > > http://phobos.fs.tum.de/acpi/index.html > > > -pat > >
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