-----Original Message----- From: C Hamel [mailto:vgm2@sc2000.net] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 10:09 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] APM vs ACPI (No APM Suspend/Standy activated in kpowersave)
Well, I don't seem to have lost any functionality on my laptop (I don't know how "modern" it is - It's a Celeron 366 - old Thinkpad i1452... about 4 years old. No services show a failure on boot, system runs as fast as it did prior, AND I can "standby" the system fine now. (It will suspend, but the network card doesn't handle that process well - it refuses to wake back up. ifdown/ifup doesn't even revive it.)
If you have any suggestions for other things to do that may work better, feel free to send them my way - I'd still consider myself in the Linux "newbie" stage, but I'm learning! (I tried compiling my first kernel the other night, totally broke my system, but managed to fix it without having to re-install SuSE from scratch :)
Steve I believe it likely that your four-year-old notebook will experience no
On Friday 06 August 2004 08:13, Steve Kratz wrote: <SNIP> problems based on personal experience: I had a [roughly] five-year-old Toshiba Satellite notebook running SuSE 8.2 Personal, and that notebook would standby w/o problems since it was entirely BIOS driven. The only thing I had to do was set the powermanagement.conf file to refresh the screen as it came out of standby.
I now have a brand spankin' new HP Pavilion notebook & it has no APM --it uses ACPI, instead. I cannot get this notebook to standby for anything, since there is no BIOS setting in any of the BIOS setup screens, and the Control Center tells me that ACPI is non-operational (read, 'busted') in this kernel.
I think it likely that your standby may actually be BIOS driven even though you are running 9.1 (I'm running 9 Pro) because my box *still* would not standby but if I closed the lid the screen would auto-lock --the only setting in the ACPI that worked.
FWIW...
So... Would it be recommended to have APM and ACPI turned on for the kernel boot opts?