On 05-Jan-01 Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:57:37PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
>> > Warner Losh wrote:
>> > >
>> > > APM is standard. Except when it is broken in some brain damaged ways.
>> > >
>> > > However, you likely have your apm device disabled in your kernel and
>> > > all you need to do is enable it.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Nope - as I said, I added log messages to apm.c to log the BIOS probe
>> > and they log a failure (I have "device apm0" in my config file).
>>
>> How new is this laptop? It may be ACPI-only.
>
> Where are we at with ACPI? Does it do power management yet?
Yes. For the Inspiron that you have you have to hack around a bit to get it to
not hang during boot (and battery status doesn't work as a result I think), but
suspend/resume on lid close work, the power button works, shutdown -p, etc.
> Joe
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