[ale] ACPI APM, Power Management Mandrake 9.1

[Berlin Brown]

The force works fine for me too, for the monitor anyway.  My dell optiplex 500 mhz, which has worked from debian installs to Mandrake installs works fine with ACPI/APM(go dell). Of course, it is an older machine.


Michael Hirsch <mhirsch at nubridges.com> wrote:Yeah, I think there is something to what you say. I know that acpi doesn't like to start on my desktop, saying that since the BIOS is from before 2000 its acpi implementation is suspect. When I force it on with acpi=force it works fine.

Michael 


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Sent: Tue 6/8/2004 5:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [ale] ACPI APM, Power Management Mandrake 9.1

Michael,
I've noticed that older hardware is not staying as supported as I'd hoped. I 
think the acpi stuff is only working properly on certain systems. I also 
think that the apm stuff should be tried with acpi off if possible on older 
hardware. The apm stuff is probably not getting supported properly on the 
newer kernels and we are running into problems there. What do you think?

My old Dell Latitude 333CPt would run perfectly under SuSE 7.1 while 8.2 and 
9.0 have some bugs that seems to cause cursor hangs and delays. I have 
thought about trying Knoppix to see if that works or doesn't.
Dow


Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 13:34, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Berlin Brown wrote:
>>
>>>have been scratching my head on this. I just put together a machine,
>>>I have put 8-10 machines together in the last couple of years.
>>>Anyway, I use my default Mandrake 9.1 install, on my other machines,
>>
>>When it comes to acpi, the later the kernel/distro, the better. I'd 
>>suggest you look at mdk 10 if you want to go the mdk route. You might 
>>find many of your problems resolved.
> 
> 
> I've found that Mandrake 10 does not provide as good acpi support for my
> 4 or so year old laptop. With 9.2 it would suspend, but I can't get it
> to suspend with 10. Actually, I should say that I can't get it to
> wake--it suspends just fine. ;-)
> 
> Michael
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