[ltp] Fedora Core 3 ACPI Strongarm
Michael Hagemann
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:27:50 +0100
Chris Schumann wrote:
> OK, I installed Fedora Core 3 on my 600X last night. When it boots, it
> proclaims that my BIOS is too old to support ACPI, even though it works
> very well with Windows XP, thanks.
Well, I have a 600e, and for that machine it _is_ advisable not to use
ACPI and use APM instead. IIRC, this holds for all the 600 models.
Things might have changed for the better, but last time I checked you
couldn't use ACPI for anything useful, especially suspend etc. did not work.
michael