[ale] ACPI APM, Power Management Mandrake 9.1

Michael D. Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Tue Jun 8 14:39:16 EDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 13:34, Geoffrey wrote:
> Berlin Brown wrote:
> > have been scratching my head on this.  I just put together a machine,
> > I have put 8-10 machines together in the last couple of years.
> > Anyway, I use my default Mandrake 9.1 install, on my other machines,
> 
> When it comes to acpi, the later the kernel/distro, the better.  I'd 
> suggest you look at mdk 10 if you want to go the mdk route.  You might 
> find many of your problems resolved.

I've found that Mandrake 10 does not provide as good acpi support for my
4 or so year old laptop.  With 9.2 it would suspend, but I can't get it
to suspend with 10.  Actually, I should say that I can't get it to
wake--it suspends just fine.  ;-)

Michael



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