APM vs ACPI

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thank you!  I'll save this and check this out.  I assume we put these on 
the LILO command line?


> kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:
>> Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> 
> Good discussion on this topic.. I'd like to add that during some of my
> testing on UnitedLinux 1.0 w/2.4.19 kernel, which has acpi enabled, we
> found all kinds of wierdness going on from NIC's that weren't recognized
> or couldn't ping out on the lan to SCSI issues where the kernel couldn't
> initialize the hardware on the SCSI chain.
> 
> SuSE told us to us ACPI=OFF or ACPI=OLDBOOT..These boot options did fix
> the problem. Seems that the ACPI stuff in the 2.4.19 kernel is a little
> whacky.. So you'll want 2 things, the newest kernel, and its related
> ACPI patches, and a machine with a sufficiently new BIOS.. For example,
> if the BIOS rev date isn't 2000 or later the kernel wont even start the
> ACPI stuff...
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Jim

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