Re: APM/ACPI

[Sean Middleditch <smiddle@twp.ypsilanti.mi.us>]

Alrighty!  Thank you!  I'll play around and see if I can't get it to
work.  I don't really care about suspend and whatnot at the moment, I
just want a warning when my battery is getting low.  ~,^

Sean Etc.

On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 13:42, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> 
> On 2 Nov 2001, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, not to point fingers or anything, but...
> >
> > "The WindowsXP that came preinstalled supported it!"
> 
> Windows XP requires systems to be fully ACPI (1.0b?) compliant. So, you
> probably have an ACPII BIOS, though many BIOSes have some remnants of APM
> left in them...
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Probably not, no, and no. ACPI support in Linux is still maturing, and
> many things still do not work. I would recommend the ACPI mailing list and
> archives for more assistance:
> 
> 	http://phobos.fs.tum.de/acpi/index.html
> 
> 
> 	-pat
> 
>