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170 lines
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>Why switch?</TITLE
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TITLE="ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface"
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TITLE="About ACPI"
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>ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface</TH
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>5. Why switch?</H1
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>Not all systems support both APM and ACPI. I switched because my
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system only supported ACPI. Pretty easy decision really. If you're switching
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to get <A
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HREF="http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/sleep.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>S3</A
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> (suspend
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to RAM) support and you're using a 2.4.x kernel, don't bother. It is <A
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HREF="http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2003/debian-laptop-200304/msg00418.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>not supported</A
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>. Period.</P
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>Not sure if your system is supported? ACPI4Linux has a list of <A
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HREF="http://acpi.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/InstallationReports"
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TARGET="_top"
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>supported
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machines/BIOSes</A
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> started on their Wiki. Please contribute to
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the list if you've installed ACPI! They also have a list of machines that
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are <A
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HREF="http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/blacklist.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>not supported</A
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>.</P
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>For more information about the power management in laptops you may
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(also) find the <A
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HREF="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Battery-Powered/index.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Battery Powered Linux Mini-HOWTO</A
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> useful.</P
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>About ACPI</TD
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