[ltp] ACPI or APM on X24?

Todd V. Rovito linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:20:37 -0500


Steve Nicholson wrote:
> I'm starting to have an attempt on getting suspend to work on my X24 
> correctly. First is to decide on ACPI or APM (my kernal is "Linux 
> version 2.6.8.1-10mdk"). Looking on 
> http://thinkwiki.org/How_to_make_use_of_Power_Management_features
> 
> It states:
> "On older models you are surely better off with APM, if they feature 
> ACPI at all. I.e. the first models from the A, T and X series seem to 
> have an incomplete ACPI implementation."
> 
> How do I tell if the X24 has an incomplete ACPI implementation and or 
> the "Problem with high power drain in ACPI sleep"?
> 
> What are others with X22-X24 using?
I have a X23 with ACPI and kernel 2.6.9 (no patches) and everything 
works great (only suspend to RAM never tried suspend to disk).  My 
distro is slackware 10.