ACPI, APM daemons

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Dana Priesing wrote:

> Thanks Mikkel:
>
> Since the notebook is a circa 2005 LC2430x, I suspect the thing to do is
> turn off apmd and let acpid run.

The apmd startup script will detect if acpi is running and won't start 
apmd in that case.  You can turn apmd off, but it's not necessary.

If your machine supports both, then acpi will run unless your disable it 
on the kernel boot line.

>
> Thanks
>
> Dana in Philly
>
> On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 16:01 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Dana Priesing wrote:
>>> Looking at the services running on my notebook running FC5 on a P4.  Is
>>> it necessary to have both acpid and apmd running?  Doesn't acpi replace
>>> apm?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> Dana in Philly
>>>
>> Only one will run. Because you can have ether APM or ACPI support,
>> the service for the support being used runs, and the other service
>> aborts. The reason to have both services enabled is so that if you
>> use the boot command line to change between them, the correct
>> service runs. It also helps if you move the hard drive to another
>> system, and it supports a different power management then the system
>> you installed it on. Then there are the systems where ACPI and/or
>> APM is broken.
>>
>> Once I have a system up and runningm I normally turn off the service
>> that is not being used, but it does not slow booting down much to
>> have both enabled.
>>
>> Mikkel
>> --
>>
>>   Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
>> for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
>>
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