Re: How to Power off with ACPI/APM?

James H. Cloos Jr.
2001-01-05T01:10:22Z

Michael> APM gives its message first in the boot process, then later
Michael> ACPI does. But ACPI says something like "APM already
Michael> present, exiting", so the doc is wrong both ways you read it,
Michael> or else ACPI doesn't succeed in the intended behavior to
Michael> override APM.

I get th eopposite behavior. If both are compiled in only ACPI works.
(Only tested w/ 2.4.0-test kernels, though.)

Either way you need the userspace daemon running to actually do
anything. Even my notebook's key for toggling full-screen vs
un-expanded display on the lcd does nothing unless apmd or acpid
as applicable are running....

-JimC
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