Re: APM or ACPI

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

Russell Shaw <rjshaw@netspace.net.au> writes:

> Which one should i use for a Dell C610 with sid?
> I've looked thru the scripts in /etc and they seem
> equally covered.

Since ACPI deprecates APM, try ACPI first.

On my ThinkPad, however, ACPI doesn't put the laptop to sleep (without
patches and other magic spells) so I'm still using APM since it works
out of the box.

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