Adam Thornton wrote: ...
Has anyone ever had ACPI do anything useful for them?
Seriously.
On each of four machines I've installed recently--a Thinkpad X20, a generic 2xP3/833, a VA Research 2xP2/400, and a Netfinity 7500 (4xP3/500, I think), I've had to turn of ACPI because otherwise everything goes all pear-shaped. What good is it *supposed* to be?
Well.. on x86(etc) ACPI is the future of power management, you don't have a choice. The problem (as I understand it) is that while the Linux ACPI code strives to be "standard" compliant, implementations in general are not compliant. So, you end up having to support all of the variations. Again.. this is what I've been told.
ACPI when it works gives you more control over power management than APM. Since APM is not SMP safe, that's another reason why you want ACPI to "work". Of course, server machines is probably one area that doesn't have to have any power management, but still... there are some cases where it would be nice.
I know it doesn't help, but it's actually gotten a lot better over the past couple of years. Perhaps it's impossible to have good ACPI support just because of all of the bad implementations (??).
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