--- Owen Savill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Repeat with me:
> >
> > while (!convinced) {
> > APM is good.
> > ACPI is bad.
> > }
>
> Why even bother with the (!convinced) if ACPI is at
> the root of all the
> various Laptop problems and lock ups being reported
> recently ?!
Actually it was APIC that was causing all of the
problems (and some of the confusion)
>
> Thanks,
> Owen
>
> On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 00:25, Juan Quintela wrote:
> >
> > >>>>> "os" == OS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
> >
> > os> (Sorry if this is in some weird font I am
> having a few problems
> with fonts
> > os> right now !!!)
> >
> > os> Hello,
> >
> > os> Could some kind person give me an ACPI how-to
> please.
> >
> > os> APMD seems to get worse with every release !
> However, I understand
> that the
> > os> latest kernel has ACPI built into it. How do I
> use it ? Is it
> possible to
> > os> remove APMD altogether ?
> >
> > Repeat with me:
> >
> > while (!convinced) {
> > APM is good.
> > ACPI is bad.
> > }
> >
> > ACPI is a bad intent for part of Microsoft + Intel
> of getting the BIOS
> > back on the middle of operations, i.e. you can't
> talk with the
> > hardware, you can only talk with ACPI, and ACPI
> _could_ do things like
> > send information over the network and things like
> that.
> >
> > (notice the _could_ part).
> >
> > ACPI is not enabled in the current kernel (linux
> implementation is
> > quite inmature yet).
> >
> > Later, Juan.
> >
> > os> Thanks,
> > os> Owen
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > In theory, practice and theory are the same, but
> in practice they
> > are different -- Larry McVoy
> >
>
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