ACPI suspend et al

[James Wilkinson]

Michael Scottaline wrote:
> Actually, it's working flawlessly for me on a Chembook derivative.  but 
> here's the catch.  It's quite old and doesn't pass the BIOS test for 
> acpi (older than 2001).  So apm handles power management.

FWIW: ACPI is turned off for pre-2001 BIOSes because too many of them
are too buggy. That doesn't mean a pre-2001 BIOS *will* be buggy [1]:
you can turn it back on using the acpi=force option if you want to
experiment.

I used to do that to get my SMP box to auto-power off (APM doesn't work
in SMP mode).

[1] Except inasmuch as every program is buggy...
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