From: Sean Middleditch <smiddle@twp.ypsilanti.mi.us>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: APM/ACPI
Date: 02 Nov 2001 13:31:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1004725879.4921.36.camel@smiddle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15zj8q-0003CI-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15zj8q-0003CI-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Hmm, not to point fingers or anything, but...
"The WindowsXP that came preinstalled supported it!"
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?
Thanks again,
Sean Etc.
On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 13:34, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I don't see anything regarding ACPI. I also read that ACPI should
> > automatically take over APM if support is available. How can I tell if
> > I'm not using ACPI because it's not supported, or because it's not
> > compiled in?
>
> Red Hat shipped kernels dont include acpi. The -1% for the battery
> percentage does look like the laptop may not support much APM if any
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-02 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-02 18:23 APM/ACPI Sean Middleditch
2001-11-02 18:34 ` APM/ACPI Alan Cox
2001-11-02 18:31 ` Sean Middleditch [this message]
2001-11-02 18:42 ` APM/ACPI Alan Cox
2001-11-02 18:41 ` APM/ACPI Sean Middleditch
2001-11-02 18:50 ` APM/ACPI Alan Cox
2001-11-05 2:49 ` APM/ACPI Sean Middleditch
2001-11-05 8:49 ` APM/ACPI Alan Cox
2001-11-05 21:34 ` APM/ACPI Mike Panetta
2001-11-02 18:42 ` APM/ACPI Patrick Mochel
2001-11-02 18:56 ` APM/ACPI Sean Middleditch
2001-11-05 4:06 APM/ACPI Grover, Andrew
2001-11-05 13:28 ` APM/ACPI Sean Middleditch
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