Re: [SLE] apm for laptop

John Andersen wrote:

On most modern laptops acpi is NOT OPTIONAL, and you should disable apm in favor of acpi. The SuSE kernel in 8.2 will do this automatically if your bios date is later than January 2001 (I think that is the date, maybe it was 2000). The important bit is it generally does it correctly all by itself.

I recently installed 8.2 on my Sony Vaio - ACPI support was installed but not configured to start at any run level and I had to manually enable the ACPI daemon (YaST, System, Run level editor, enable acpid) It works fine now, but quite why the installation doesn't automatically start acpid I don't know. sjb