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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dan Maas <dmaas@dcine.com>, Jeremy Jackson <jerj@coplanar.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unwanted disk access by the kernel?
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:30:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020316013027.GD363@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005401c1cc51$ab6c3fe0$1a02a8c0@allyourbase> <E16lwyE-0004N7-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16lwyE-0004N7-00@the-village.bc.nu>

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 07:02:30PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > By the way, if I enable 'APM makes CPU idle calls when idle,' I get a
> > constant stream of 'apm_do_idle failed (3)' messages. APM also doesn't seem
> > to be able to power the machine down... This is a Dell Inspiron 7500...
> > Maybe I should try ACPI?
> 
> ACPI is a bit experimental right now but if you want some fun then obviously
> the more people who break the ACPI code the better.

For my uses (basically just power down) ACPI has worked on 99% of my
machines (mix of pii & piii).

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-16  1:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-15  6:36 unwanted disk access by the kernel? Dan Maas
2002-03-15  7:00 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-15  9:20 ` Jeremy Jackson
2002-03-15 18:46   ` Dan Maas
2002-03-15 19:02     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16  1:30       ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2002-03-16 15:11         ` Joachim Breuer
2002-03-15 14:35 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-19 15:06 ` Pavel Machek

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