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acpi in linux?

post #1 of 4
8/12/05 at 11:07am
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hi, i am new to this forum. i have currently decided to install suse 9.3 or some other linux on my a70-rw1 laptop, but i was wondering if i should do a installation without acpi support on it. can anyone please tell me. thanks
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post #2 of 4
8/12/05 at 2:05pm
Hi , Welcome to a great resource of information. I have lurked here for a long time. When I was running 9.3 on my eMachines M6811 acpi seemed to work ok , except for hibernate some error with ATI drivers. It allowed for various power settings etc.
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post #3 of 4
8/14/05 at 12:00am
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Originally Posted by learnerd
hi, i am new to this forum. i have currently decided to install suse 9.3 or some other linux on my a70-rw1 laptop, but i was wondering if i should do a installation without acpi support on it. can anyone please tell me. thanks
Depends on how good the notebooks ACPI implementation is with regard to the ACPI standard ... some are terrible. Others are very good...

e.g. ACPI on the Ferrari 4000 is poor ... fails to respond to some standard ACPI queries and commands ...

Try the install and see
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post #4 of 4
8/16/05 at 9:10pm
As others have said, I like a quote I read elsewhere(I tihnk on arstechnica)

Linux seems to highlight shortcomings in manufacturer's roducts that dont comply to standards...

Or something like that. ACPI is the most notorious for this, many manufacturers try to save some money(I have no clue how) and their ACPI implementations are rather cruddily done, so on some notebooks linux ACPI doesnt work very well. On the ones that comply to standards though it works rather well with the possible exception of sleep. last I Heard that was still experimental but everything else was supposed to work good.

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