On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:55:59PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > El lunes, 8 de septiembre de 2003, a las 13:51, Jason Chambers escribe: > > "If both ACPI and Advanced Power Management (APM) support are > > configured, whichever is loaded first shall be used." > > I suspected this. Which option do you think is better? I am supposing > that is ACPI, as it should be a newer technology. Indeed, default > bf2.4 kernel has APM support enabled, but *not* ACPI. > ACPI is the newer technology and can do more than APM. However it is still experimental, especially in 2.4 kernels. The Debian kernels don't include the later ACPI patch which can improve matters. Emma Jane Hogbin wrote a HOWTO about ACPI which can found somewhere around: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200306/msg00985.html -- .''`. Jason Chambers <chambersj@thingy.org.uk> : :' : Registered linux user #271693 `. `'` `- http://www.debian.org/ - The Universal Operating System
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