Re: What are folks doing for (laptop) power management on FC3?

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:44:20AM -0600, Cam Desautels wrote:
> >At least on older laptops even those that think they can do ACPI its 
> >generally
> >a win. On newer boxes I'm just running the cpu speed daemon and a 100Hz
> >kernel rather than the FC3 kernel.
> What advantage is gained from turning ACPI off?

You can't mix and match APM and ACPI. And if you have a laptop which works
really well with APM, that's generally better than ACPI works at its very
best these days. (Suspend to disk might actually work with no difficulties,
for example.)

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