On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 04:16, James Sparenberg wrote: > I've not one piece of hardware that acpi works on myself. Either MDK's > or FreeBSD's. However did do a Linux install to a Dell laptop for a > co-worker last week... He asked me if acpi worked so he could suspend > it. I said yes. Showed him suspend and never told him it was apm > *grin*
It works fine on my laptop. For more modern laptops you *should* try ACPI, since often their power management features depend on it. For instance, I know someone whose laptop will only vary the speed of the fan if ACPI is enabled, if you use APM it runs full speed all the time. -- adamw
