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A note.... regarding ACPI

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31-May-2005, 07:54 PM #1
A note.... regarding ACPI
I will tell you, in my sage advice one thing. If you need acpi on a machine (IE a laptop), the best thing is not linux. Use FreeBSD. Now, this may seem like shameless promotion, but I do have a reason: FreeBSD's implementation was created by intel, one of the main definers of the ACPI spec, and as such, I have found FreeBSD's acpi to be far, far superior in stability to that of linux.

now, if only I could get rid of that nasty acpi sleep powerdrain issue(http://thinkwiki.org/index.php/Probl..._in_ACPI_sleep)
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01-Jun-2005, 01:59 AM #2
Agreed....

On Linux, APM should still be used. God I hate acpi
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01-Jun-2005, 02:13 AM #3
I use acpi , I just have to create custom rules to do what i want it to do!
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05-Jun-2005, 06:17 PM #4
That's the one thing that's nice(ish) about linux, is that acpid can do some intersting things, like run a totally arbitrary command in relation to an ACPI event in ways that most acpi implementations are not able.... however, for basic suspend/resume you shouldn't HAVE to have a complicated script for it. It should just work. As it does on FreeBSD (for me)
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05-Jun-2005, 08:24 PM #5
Now see thats something I've never attempted to do under linux, is suspend/resume. I've always been annoyed with the time waiting for it to give me back access so its more hassel then its worth for me. I do know however that suspend to disk etc is buggy right now
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05-Jun-2005, 10:21 PM #6
On a laptop, it's sort of a necessity. Ok, well, not a necessity, definitely very handy.

(Oh, man, is my extra 700 odd mhz helping (I moved up to a 900))
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