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 1EAU4F-0004jm-WA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:00:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7VEt2wJ014424; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:55:02 GMT Received: from neuromancer.home.net ([218.111.16.123]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7VEmGW4003089 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:48:17 GMT Received: from neuromancer.home.net (neuromancer.home.net [127.0.0.1]) by neuromancer.home.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7VEoOVg005444 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:50:25 +0800 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop From: Ow Mun Heng To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <010f01c5ae3a$114dba50$0501a8c0@croatus> References: <010f01c5ae3a$114dba50$0501a8c0@croatus> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:50:24 +0800 Message-Id: <1125499824.20225.11.camel@neuromancer.home.net> 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 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2305c7a0-4426-4393-8b03-f7b905ee1fc4 X-Archives-Hash: 2aa19328c7a7c54ecc824cbc8c0b9ad7 On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 10:40 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > 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 I believe there would be 2 ways to try. Well, try both. And see what works better for you. I use ACPI because it works better for me. :-) > > > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 22:48:24 up 2:58, 5 users, load average: 1.21, 1.31, 1.44 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list