How to tell Fedora

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 11:40:10PM -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote:
 > On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 17:25 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
 > > I believe Fedora defaults to acpi unless you override that on the boot
 > > line.
 > 
 > Yes.  Add "acpi=off" to the grub kernel line.  (This is effectively
 > "apm=on".)  Many older notebooks do not work with acpi.  Some apparently
 > don't work with either.

Older laptops (those with a BIOS made earlier than 2001) will automatically
disable acpi unless you boot with acpi=force.
The quality pre 2001 was somewhat dire to say the least.

		Dave