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From: Sean Middleditch <smiddle@twp.ypsilanti.mi.us>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: APM/ACPI
Date: 02 Nov 2001 13:31:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1004725879.4921.36.camel@smiddle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15zj8q-0003CI-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15zj8q-0003CI-00@the-village.bc.nu>

Hmm, not to point fingers or anything, but...

"The WindowsXP that came preinstalled supported it!"

I dunno, perhaps there is some proprietary protocol?  Is ACPI backwards
compat with APM?  I mean, if the laptop doesn't support APM, would that
mean it can't support ACPI?

Thanks again,
Sean Etc.

On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 13:34, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I don't see anything regarding ACPI.  I also read that ACPI should
> > automatically take over APM if support is available.  How can I tell if
> > I'm not using ACPI because it's not supported, or because it's not
> > compiled in?
> 
> Red Hat shipped kernels dont include acpi. The -1% for the battery
> percentage does look like the laptop may not support much APM if any
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-02 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-02 18:23 APM/ACPI Sean Middleditch
2001-11-02 18:34 ` APM/ACPI Alan Cox
2001-11-02 18:31   ` Sean Middleditch [this message]
2001-11-02 18:42     ` APM/ACPI Alan Cox
2001-11-02 18:41       ` APM/ACPI Sean Middleditch
2001-11-02 18:50         ` APM/ACPI Alan Cox
2001-11-05  2:49           ` APM/ACPI Sean Middleditch
2001-11-05  8:49             ` APM/ACPI Alan Cox
2001-11-05 21:34           ` APM/ACPI Mike Panetta
2001-11-02 18:42     ` APM/ACPI Patrick Mochel
2001-11-02 18:56       ` APM/ACPI Sean Middleditch
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-05  4:06 APM/ACPI Grover, Andrew
2001-11-05 13:28 ` APM/ACPI Sean Middleditch

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