[ltp] 2.6 kernel acpi howtos

Satish Balay linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 20 May 2004 09:59:23 -0500 (CDT)


On Thu, 20 May 2004, Lance A. Brown wrote:

> > the madwifi card freaks out when the laptop scales back the cpu.

Hmm. I've been using 'cpudyn' on FC1 with madwifi without issues.  And
FC2 briefly with APM - and 'cpuspeed?' which did the freqscaling

> > to use apm i bet you just have to pass acpi=off at the kernel prompt and
> > install apmd.
> 
> Going to try this as well.  If I can get back to a nice suspend-to-ram 
> situation that worked as well as it did with FC1 / kernel 2.4 than 
> I'll be happy.

Another reason for APM is - e1000 driver doesn't work with ACPI. It
misbehaves after suspend/resume (haven't tried unloading the driver
before S3 though..)

Satish