[ltp] R40e & Power

[Konstantin Geister]

Hi again,

My system is not supporting APM.

I forgot to say one thing:
When I don't turn off ACPI the computer won't boot!
I used to run SUSE Linux on the TP before FC2 and I found out that the
ACPI-Modules fan and thermal probally have some problems with my TP Model.
May I turn them off?
By the way I don't want to loose volume & brightness buttons fuctionality!
Thankx for help.
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> Quite true about ACPI being young, unstable etc, but I am pretty sure the
> R40e does not support APM so we are kind of stuck....
> 
> Like I said - I haven't tried suspend, slowing the CPU etc, and ACPI seems
> to stop the volume & brightness buttons working, but the battery monitor
> does work 'out of the box' under ACPI with Mandrake - you just need to
> decide which you want (or be prepared to mess around a lot!).
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Thursday 03 Jun 2004 10:46, Didrik Pinte wrote:
> > Le jeu 03/06/2004 à 11:27, Chris Street a écrit :
> > > > On a R50, with kernel 2.6.5 (Debian/Sid), running apmd and with
> > > > acpi=off, i've a battery monitor running perfectly well.
> > > 
> > > Interesting - does the R50 use APM, or are you using some other
> software?
> > > Haven't owned any other thinkpad, but it seems that what works for one
> model will not work at all on another - they are very individual...
> > 
> > IBM Thinkpad BIOS are excellent with power management using APM. ACPI is
> > still a young powermanagement system and it is not perfectly stable.
> > 
> > Using apm, you'll have suspend-to-disk and suspend-to-ram working out of
> > the box on nearly any thinkpads.
> > 
> > You may try to have ACPI working on all those laptops, but you will face
> > lots of litlle problems : DSDT tables, no suspend using bios (so you
> > have to use software suspend like swsusp, etc.)...
> > 
> > The only disadvantage of APM is that it consumes a little bit more
> > batteries and that some information aren't as clear as using acpi.
> > 
> > Didrik
> > 
> 
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> Chris Street
> chris@showerail.com
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