From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Constantinos Antoniou Subject: General ACPI/Linux question Date: 25 Jan 2003 20:54:24 -0500 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <1043546064.14472.9.camel@nefeli> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hello, I have a laptop (Compaq Presarion 1700T) and would really really like to have some ACPI support (battery status is very important, suspend to ram or disk - anything faster than reboot- would be very very useful and welcome). I have not tried every possible trick, and in any case I am hoping to get some things working this year... either with the introduction of ACPI in RH8.1 or otherwise (ok, this is not flame-bait. Let me move on :)) This is not a system/problem specific post, however. My question is: One of the most usual things I see in the various newsgroup posts is that DSDT tables are buggy, and people need to disassemble them, edit them, replace them etc etc. However, windows power management on the same machines works. So what is the situation? The way I (don't) understand it, the ACPI implementation expects some things to be defined correctly in the DSDT table. However, some OSes manage to work with whatever is there. And to go one step further, if I change this DSDT thingie, will the ACPI functionality in the other OSes still work? So, would an option be to be more lenient (I understand that there are standards and people should respect them...) Thanks in advance and please be considerate in the replies - IANA ACPI expert. Costas -- Constantinos Antoniou Ph.D. Candidate Massachusetts Institute of Technology Intelligent Transportation Systems Program 77 Massachusetts Ave., NE20-208, Cambridge, MA 02139 (T) 617-252-1113 * (F) 617-252-1130 * (email) costas-3s7WtUTddSA@public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com