[7188] in testers
Re: no apm support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Mon Jun 20 16:38:34 2005
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:38:22 -0400
Message-Id: <200506202038.j5KKcMZW015451@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: jweiss@MIT.EDU
CC: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <200506201237.j5KCbh9X027150@bearing-an-hourglass.mit.edu>
(message from Jonathon Weiss on Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:37:42 -0400)
>Trying to use apm features on a 9.4 linux machines reports that there
>is no apm support in the kernel, thus making athena 9.4 a lot less
>useful for laptop users.
Any relatively recent laptop should have BIOS support for ACPI, which is
the newer replacement for APM and the way and the light according to Red
Hat. (They've disabled APM in RHEL4 in favor of ACPI.) Presumably your
ROM-based configuration utility will have an option for changing power
management schemes.
This should definitely get coverage in the release notes; thanks for
reporting it. (Not to mention switching out apmd for acpid.)
