From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EATvU-00083z-RZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:50:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7VElGqX010053; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:47:16 GMT Received: from smtp-2u-1g.atlantic.net (smtp-2u-1g.atlantic.net [209.208.0.105]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7VEciWi019029 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:38:46 GMT Received: (qmail 28219 invoked by uid 0); 31 Aug 2005 14:41:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO croatus) (209.208.34.71) by smtp-2u-1g.atlantic.net with SMTP; 31 Aug 2005 14:41:01 -0000 From: "John Dangler" To: Subject: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:40:46 -0400 Message-ID: <010f01c5ae3a$114dba50$0501a8c0@croatus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Priority: 1 (Highest) X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Importance: High Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7VEciWi019029 X-Archives-Salt: 4b066774-9c09-431b-a744-a3386c450fe2 X-Archives-Hash: 4acfd12b1abc5d94801d0ef9d60372fe 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list