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Benjamin Scott
bscott at ntisys.com
Mon Jan 17 21:55:01 EST 2005
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, at 9:41am, talbright at albrightent.com wrote:
> I run apt-get dist-upgrade on it every night, so I'm guessing apm got
> changed.
>
> Why the make and model of the laptop or the distribution matters is
> unclear to me, but it's a Acer Extensa 368D running RedHat 6.2 with a
> 2.2.24-6.2.3 kernel on an i586
The make and model of laptop matter because some (perhaps many) have
different, non-standard, or just plain broken power management. It also
helps to tell us what kind of power management (ACPI vs APM) it will
support. The distribution and kernel matter for mostly the same reasons.
For example, anything that old (software or hardware) will be APM only, no
ACPI possible. That's too bad, because ACPI gives you a lot more control
over this kind of thing. For example, the lid switch is a defined event,
and you can trigger arbitrary commands on it.
For APM, I seem to recall that you have to tweak some kernel config
feature and rebuild the kernel (or maybe just the APM module). There might
have been a source patch involved at some point. It's been awhile. Sorry.
I admit I'm confused as to how you're running "apt-get dist-upgrade" on a
Red Hat 6.2 system. I know APT has been ported to RPM, but you're obviously
not upgrading the distribution or you'd have left RHL 6.2 in the dust a
loooong time ago... :-) Can you clue me in here? I'm interested.
--
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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