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From: "John Dangler" <jdangler@atlantic.net>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:40:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <010f01c5ae3a$114dba50$0501a8c0@croatus> (raw)

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




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             reply	other threads:[~2005-08-31 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-31 14:40 John Dangler [this message]
2005-08-31 14:50 ` [gentoo-user] power management on laptop Ow Mun Heng
2005-08-31 15:19 ` Renat Golubchyk
2005-08-31 16:03   ` RESOLVED: " John Dangler
2005-08-31 17:21     ` Nick Smith
2005-08-31 16:41       ` John Dangler

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