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Re: APM or ACPI on a PowerPC Laptop?



On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:13:29 +0100
Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:23 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> > 
> > I am confused as to what power management technology I should be using. When I installed debian etch on this powerpc Apple PowerBook, apm was used as default.
> > 
> > Things are working great here and I have no complaints. However, I understand there is also ACPI, which is newer.
> > 
> > Are there any advantages in switching to ACPI?
> 
> TTBOMK there's no ACPI on PowerPC at all.
> 
> > Do I need to have hardware support for ACPI? Note this is a fairly old
> > laptop (round 6 years).
> 
> As with all PowerMacs, even APM is just emulated on top of the native
> PMU/SMU then.
> 

Ahhh very interesting...Thanks for clearing that up! No wonder acpi was not available on the debian powerpc repos!


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