How do I tell whether my laptop supports acpi or apm? I'm sorry to keep throwing this up right now, but lack of experience begs more questions. I've found a lot of information about this box (dell inspiron 8600) from googling, forums, etc., but they seem to be split on whether this box uses acpi or apm. I have looked at numerous articles saying that they upgraded the bios regarding this, but when I read the changelogs on every version of bios since this one (A04) [the latest is A13], they all say that they added fixes for bugs in suspend and added support for new cards. None of them say "And we went from APM to APCI" , or anything like it. It appeared as though apm was supported in this box, since my first go at the battery applet showed that the battery had 100% power, and, after installing apcid, the battery constantly shows 0.
Any input is appreciated. it's a small thing, really, but now that I've started looking into it, I can't let go until I find a solution. John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
