Re: ospmd or acpid

Matthew Tippett
2002-12-12T15:48:13Z

Thanks, you answered the question.

So I will be sticking with acpid until all the ACPI support for my
system is under control ;).

Matt

Knut Neumann wrote:
>>Just a quick question regarding the user space daemons for ACPI. There
>>is ospmd which is part of the acpi project, and there is acpid which is
>>a seperate project which Andrew is a member of both.
>
>
> Hmm...so what is your question? I assume you meant to ask which daemon to
> use, so if thats right read on:
>
> While acpid already reached version 1.0 and is quite ready to use, ospmd is
> supposed to be better of the two but it is still under development - though
> actually no one is really working on it. When its done it should replace not
> only acpid but also apmd and it is thought to handle UPSes and other power
> related devices as well.
>