APM instead of ACPI?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:13:59AM +1300, Bill Christiansen wrote:

> You should only need to edit the /etc/modules file to add apm. You
> could also put a acpi=off in the grub menu.lst boot options if you
> wanted to make sure acpi didn't try to load.

If your system supports ACPI but you don't want to use it, you must specify
acpi=off.

Note that work is underway for Hoary to enable APM automatically if ACPI is
not supported or has been disabled.

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 - mdz