[ale] debian acpi module errors, framebuffer

Jay Loden jloden at toughguy.net
Mon Jan 24 12:39:05 EST 2005


Thinpad i1300 - I had no problems with power management under Mepis Linux or 
Slackware, but I believe it may have been APM...how can I use APM and make 
sure it's working?
-Jay

On Monday 24 January 2005 11:59 am, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 11:51 -0500, Jay Loden wrote:
> > Will I need acpi for battery/power management for the laptop though?
>
> What kind of laptop?  Chances are APM will do just fine.  ACPI is newer,
> but not as stable as APM.
>
> -Jim P.
>
> > On Monday 24 January 2005 07:41 am, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > > Hi Jay,
> > >
> > > Try disabling acpi in your kernel boot process.  To test this just add
> > > acpi=off on the end of your lilo or grub boot sequence.  In grub, just
> > > highlight the boot line and press 'e' to edit or 'p' to enter a
> > > password if you set grub up with one.
> > >
> > > -Jim P.
> >
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