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From: Matthew Harrell <lists-sender-14a37a@bittwiddlers.com>
To: Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ACPI Support Is Improving Amazingly
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 19:22:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030107002239.GA2141@bittwiddlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1041898438.20314.7.camel@sbarn.net>

> I must say, in 2.5.54 I am *extremely* impressed by ACPI and how far it
> has excelled over APM. I used to never be able to have my computer
> automatically power off when I halted the system but now with ACPI it
> goes off! This is quite a trivial task too for this is an eMachine and
> imho it has a weird button setup period. Many thanks to the developers
> and maintainers of ACPI, keep up the good work.

That's funny since I was just cursing the ACPI code a little while ago.  
Beginning around 2.5.51 I have to boot with "acpi=off" to avoid having the
machine slow to a crawl and never actually finish booting up.  

-- 
  Matthew Harrell                          Failure is not an option. It comes
  Bit Twiddlers, Inc.                       bundled with your Microsoft
  mharrell@bittwiddlers.com                 product.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-07  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-07  0:13 ACPI Support Is Improving Amazingly Steven Barnhart
2003-01-07  0:22 ` Matthew Harrell [this message]
2003-01-07  0:47 ` Steven Barnhart

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