Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Jun 2001 03:36:30 -0300 | From | John R Lenton <> | Subject | Re: ACPI or Advanced power ... |
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On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:14:26AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I need an advice, my machine is i810 chipset and using > > ACPI bios, but not sure which one i should use in the > > kernel config. Now I use APM with kernel kapm-idle . > > If you have the option - use APM not ACPI. ACPI is larger, and right now > being experimental code - fairly buggy
I agree ACPI sucks, but I have a SMP box that I need to be able to powerdown remotely. Is there any reason APM can't do that? I mean, I understand APM was never meant for SMP, but... ?
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