On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 21:05, Jose González Gómez wrote: > Hi there, > > I have an Acer Aspire 1350 laptop where I have just installed > Gentoo. The problem is that I don't manage to get ACPI working. I've > been reading a lot of stuff in the mailing list, the forums, etc, but I > don't have a clear picture of this: > > 1. Are APM and ACPI related? I understand I should use *only* one of > them but not both, is this correct? > 2. Should I try to move to APM if I'm not able to get ACPI running? > 3. Will I have all the battery, sleep, hibernate, etc stuff in APM? > 4. Does anybody out there have an Acer Aspire 1350 with a working > Gentoo that would share her experinces with me, please? > > By the way, I'm using kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r5, there seems to be > some part of ACPI working, as I'm able to see some messages in > /var/log/messages when I plug/unplug my AC cord, but I don't have any > /proc/acpi/battery directory. I can post more information if needed. > > Thanks a lot, regards > Jose
Although I don't actually have a laptop at all, but I have heard that 2.6 kernels include better power management support, including fancy things like hibernate... Might be worth a look? -- Tom Wesley
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