[ltp] 2.6 kernel acpi howtos

Brad Langhorst linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 20 May 2004 10:02:54 -0400


On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 02:55, Lance A. Brown wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just upgraded from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 on my T41 (2378) and
> am trying to get a grip on ACPI vs. APM.  FC1 was nice.  APM did
> everything I needed and now I'm struggling to regain the funcationality.
> 
> I'm getting lots of bits and pieces of how to use ACPI to handle
> suspend-to-ram, suspend-to-disk, and power managements, but I haven't
> found a single comprehensive doc.
> 
> Is there a URL out there that can assist?  I want to set up good suspend
> mechanims and figure out how to stretch my battery as far as I can.
acpi doesn't work properly yet...
however to get the partial features is pretty easy - just use 2.6.6.
S3 sort of works (sucks power)
the madwifi card freaks out when the laptop scales back the cpu.

to use apm i bet you just have to pass acpi=off at the kernel prompt and
install apmd.

brad