On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:44, Mof wrote: > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 02:58 am, Jack Coates wrote: > > 1st: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to > > huh ?? (page times out)
sorry, a power line snapped on our street and power's been out for thirteen hours. That page explains why setting your reply-to on a mailing list is really annoying, largely because it makes replies like the one I'm about to type go directly to you instead of the list archives. Directly to you may or may not help you, but to the list archives means you would have found one of the other twenty times I've typed this reply when you Googled for the problem :-) ... > > It appears that acpi and apm do the same thing, which is the prefered one to > use anyway ? > APM is old, stable, and the best thing if your laptop supports it. ACPI is new, unstable, and on some laptops the only choice available. If half your devices don't work and your laptop overheats all the time because the fan never turns on, you have an ACPI laptop and you need to edit /etc/lilo.conf, change acpi=off to acpi=on, and run /sbin/lilo. ... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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