[ltp] Why use acpi for suspend?

[James Knott]

Frederik Wagner wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Nick Bower wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thanks, that's news to me - I assumed the bios was doing the suspend as
>>I've never configured APM, and apmd is not running (although I'll admit
>>that it is installed now that I've checked).
> 
> 
> In principle for apm the bios _is_ doing the suspend work. With acpi
> the OS is responsible for all the stuff...
> 
> 
>>I installed tpb and perhaps this may be triggering apm for a suspend?  I
>>can't think how else the FN+F4 could be intercepted.  I guess I should
>>try and configure tpb work with acpi then.
> 
> 
> AFAIK the some of the Fn combinations are handelt by the bios anyway.
> They alway produce an event (also for acpi) for all the other
> combination, which are not working out of the box, install the
> great ibm_acpi module, which came up some weeks ago... And don't
> forget the newest acpi kernel patch...
> 

Where can that "great ibm_acpi module" be found?