What are folks doing for (laptop) power management on FC3?

Tue Dec 21 19:29:59 UTC 2004

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:44:20AM -0600, Cam Desautels wrote:
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> What advantage is gained from turning ACPI off?

This is switching a laptop to APM for a power managment.  For some
laptops this is exactly what doctor prescribed and for other
this is an instant killer.  Depends really on your BIOS, and what
kind of bugs are hidden there, so it is hard to call that
"advantage".

Newer models tend to lean towards ACPI but you still _may_ have
working APM.  ACPI is big and convoluted beast and BIOS writers
are not famous for a quality of their code.  OTOH I have seen
laptops where APM is still nominally there but you definitely
do not want to use it.

   Michal