[gentoo-user] power management on laptop

[gentoo-user] power management on laptop

[John Dangler]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

[Ow Mun Heng]

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. :-)
> 
> 
> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

[Renat Golubchyk]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:40:46 -0400 "John Dangler"
<jdangler@atlantic.net> 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 whether this box uses acpi or apm.

"Tuxmobil"[1] and "Linux on Laptops"[2] are your friends ;-)


Cheers,
Renat


[1] http://tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html
[2] http://www.linux-laptop.net/


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RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

[John Dangler]

Renat~
Good Call!!
I found a little block of text on tux where someone had apm loaded by
default, and, after adding acpi, had nothing working.  As I read through the
text, the poster mentioned looking in modules.autoload.d several times and
seeing nothing being added (they didn't add anything themselves, and
apparently assumed that the addition of the package would "handle" it).
I looked around a little more and found someone who had a box very similar
to mine and used the autoload settings from that article... All of the
applets are showing properly in gnome now!

Thanks to you and Holly for the patient replies on this.

John D

-----Original Message-----
From: Renat Golubchyk [mailto:ragermany@gmx.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 11:19 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:40:46 -0400 "John Dangler"
<jdangler@atlantic.net> 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 whether this box uses acpi or apm.

"Tuxmobil"[1] and "Linux on Laptops"[2] are your friends ;-)


Cheers,
Renat


[1] http://tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html
[2] http://www.linux-laptop.net/


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Re: RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

[Nick Smith]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:03 -0400, John Dangler wrote:

> I looked around a little more and found someone who had a box very similar
> to mine and used the autoload settings from that article... All of the
> applets are showing properly in gnome now!
> 
> Thanks to you and Holly for the patient replies on this.
> 
> John D
> 
what autoload settings did you use?


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RE: RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

[John Dangler]

Nick~
so far, here is what's in my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file - 
ac b44 battery button fan processor thermal ipw2100 ieee80211
ieee80211_crypt ieee80211_crypt_wep ieee80211_crypt_ccmp
ieee80211_crypt_tkip nvidia
#iptables -- This BORKS ipw right now... 8/29 : JD

John 


-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Smith [mailto:nick@computernick.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 1:21 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:03 -0400, John Dangler wrote:

> I looked around a little more and found someone who had a box very similar
> to mine and used the autoload settings from that article... All of the
> applets are showing properly in gnome now!
> 
> Thanks to you and Holly for the patient replies on this.
> 
> John D
> 
what autoload settings did you use?


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