On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 21:07, MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote: > Have you tried to update the BIOSes on those guys? ACPI is the replacement > for APM. APM, as I understand it, will be phased out if favor of ACPI in > future kernels and releases. Some manufactures have made BIOS updates to > become ACPI compliant...
If you read some history on this list, I hope you'll agree that this isn't likely for a while...ACPI on Linux still has some *serious* compatibility troubles and is nowhere near a point where it can obsolete the far more reliable APM support. -- adamw
