Michael,
I was under the impression that power management support in the
linux kernel was a mutually exclusive choice between APM and ACPI.
In fact, every time I tried to support both, I would get
errors compiling the kernel. Am I missing something?
Phillip
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 06:49:56AM -0700, Michael Halcrow wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 02:46, Matthew Larson wrote:
> > Has anybody out there ever been able to successfully suspend a Linux
> > session on a laptop? If so, how difficult is it? Is there a utility
> > that does it?
>
> I tried Red Hat 8.0 on my Dell Latitude a few months back. My
> ``do-or-die'' test was to see if it suspended and woke up correctly. It
> didn't, and Red Hat went bye-bye.
>
> I am currently running Debian on my laptop, and wake up and suspend work
> just fine. I have a custom kernel with all the APM and ACPI options
> enabled, and I have the latest version of XFree86, with the latest Gatos
> video drivers (for my Rage Mobility 128 chip). Hope this gives you some
> ideas. :-)
>
> Mike
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