Re: Notebook (ACPI) (Was: Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?)

2007-03-07 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, March 6, 2007 18:56, David Brodbeck wrote: ACPI is definitely a mixed bag. I don't think I've ever seen a system where it worked completely right, unlike APM, which was pretty mature. Worked like a bomb on my Compaq Armada m700 - too bad the notebook could only take 512mb memory,

Re: Notebook (ACPI) (Was: Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?)

2007-03-07 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: ACPI is definitely a mixed bag.  I don't think I've ever seen a system where it worked completely right, unlike APM, which was pretty mature. Most laptops now days need it. Period. End of story. If you don't run it you get stuttering sound,

Re: Notebook (ACPI) (Was: Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?)

2007-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 06 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: ACPI is definitely a mixed bag. I don't think I've ever seen a system where it worked completely right, unlike APM, which was pretty mature. Most laptops now days need it. Period. End of story. If you don't run

Notebook (ACPI) (Was: Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?)

2007-03-06 Thread David Brodbeck
Hans du Plooy wrote: Ha ha! Problem on my notebooks is my fans don't switch on. Whic hwas OK before CPU frequency scaling started working, because the chip was underclocked and barely ever hit 60 degrees celcius. But at some point that was fixed (the frequency scaling) which now gives me a