no need for apmd...

[Evan Monroig]

It is indeed a new laptop (2003 I guess), and it fully supports acpi,
so I will disable apm.

Thanks (^_^)

Evan

On Apr 12, 2005 10:45 AM, Andy Choens <andy.choens at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 22:23 +0900, Evan Monroig wrote:
> > Sorry, I don't know if it is my english level that is too low, or your
> > vocabulary that is too technical, but I don't understand what you are
> > saying... (I'm not a native speaker ;))
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Evan
> 
> What he was trying to say is that if you have a motherboard that was
> made before ~1999/2000 then acpi won't work.  That's why nearly every
> distro that claims to have power management starts up both.
> 
> If you install Uu onto a computer with a motherboard in early 1998 for
> instance, ACPI won't work because the standards acpi relies on didn't
> exist then, but apm did.  If your computer is new enough to fully
> support acpi, try turning off apm, reset and see if things work for you.
> If they do that's great.  If they don't you can always re-enable apm.
> This is an experiement that won't hurt anything.
> 
> --andy
> 
>