On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 07:00, Thomas Backlund wrote: > Viestiss� Perjantai 14. Helmikuuta 2003 16:35, James Sparenberg kirjoitti: > > question, > > Is MDK trying to eliminate apm, replacing it with acpi? The rpm > > suspend scripts makes it impossible for me suspend my laptop. The > > latest kernels are built without apm support etc. In my case I really > > do need to use apm instead of acpi. Why? Because Compaq with the > > Armada series (and I'm told some of the Presario series as well) doesn't > > support acpi. the DSDT scripts are apparently mucked up in bios and > > since you can't do anything in bios but enter your name and passwords > > you are kinda outa luck. I'm quite sure not everyone is able to use > > brand new 1800 dollar laptops and some compromises may need to be made. > > > > James > > If you boot with acpi=off the kernel is falling back to apm... > > as for starting to support acpi, it has to be done... > every new system is using it... Thank you for the correct syntax. I had it wrong. Suspend-scripts seem only to shut down the screen but not the box itself... now to see if I can find some useful data for bugzilla. Again thank you. > > and Linux is not the only OS having trouble with acpi,
This box won't even boot with FreeBSD 5.0 if acpi is active and in win2k support is a total joke.. yes you are very right. > > Win2k and WinXP gets into a lot of problems trying to install > it in ACPI mode on a Abit kt7-100 ... Or install it period. The only way I got it working was by installing it on another box and then moving that HDD to the box with that motherboard. I'll never (hopefully) have to do another winXP install. James
