How is FC3 ACPI on laptops these days?

[Lloyd Hayes]

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>> Dexter Ang wrote:
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>>> > Hey folks,
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>>> > As the last version of Fedora I've used was FC2, I'm wondering about
>>> > the current 'condition' of FC3. I'm using a Thinkpad T30. Going
>>> > through the archives, I didn't really see any info regarding ACPI
>>> > status.
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>>> > Suspend -to-disk and -to-ram works under Ubuntu Hoary. Of course they
>>> > have that Thinkpad power-drain bug on S3. But suspend-to-disk works
>>> > really well. So would a fully-updated FC3 work well with ACPI events?
>>> > 
>>> > I'm more looking for personal experiences, as searching around shows
>>> > that most people just kept using APM, it seems.
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>> Dex,
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>> Check out ThinkWiki (http://www.thinkwiki.org/ThinkWiki) and Volker 
>> Braun's T-41 site. 
>> (http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~vbraun/computing/T41/kernel.html)  He's got a 
>> link to his kernel repository there.  The more recent ones (2.6.11-13) 
>> get ACPI working just fine on my T40.  Depending on the graphics chipset 
>> in your T30, you might have to recompile from the SRPM after editing a 
>> file.  (Write me directly if you need to recompile and I'll help you.)
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>> pete
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ACPI works fine on my 3 year old Toshiba Satellite using FC3 out of the box.
Not so well on my older Gateway Solos. They run into a year 2000 failure.


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