Re: How is FC3 ACPI on laptops these days?

From: Lloyd Hayes (lloyd545220-trucker_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/28/05

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    Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:17:33 -0700
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    >
    >
    >> Dexter Ang wrote:
    >
    >
    >>> > Hey folks,
    >>> >
    >>> > As the last version of Fedora I've used was FC2, I'm wondering about
    >>> > the current 'condition' of FC3. I'm using a Thinkpad T30. Going
    >>> > through the archives, I didn't really see any info regarding ACPI
    >>> > status.
    >>> >
    >>> > Suspend -to-disk and -to-ram works under Ubuntu Hoary. Of course they
    >>> > have that Thinkpad power-drain bug on S3. But suspend-to-disk works
    >>> > really well. So would a fully-updated FC3 work well with ACPI events?
    >>> >
    >>> > I'm more looking for personal experiences, as searching around shows
    >>> > that most people just kept using APM, it seems.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> Dex,
    >>
    >> Check out ThinkWiki (http://www.thinkwiki.org/ThinkWiki) and Volker
    >> Braun's T-41 site.
    >> (http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~vbraun/computing/T41/kernel.html) He's got a
    >> link to his kernel repository there. The more recent ones (2.6.11-13)
    >> get ACPI working just fine on my T40. Depending on the graphics chipset
    >> in your T30, you might have to recompile from the SRPM after editing a
    >> file. (Write me directly if you need to recompile and I'll help you.)
    >>
    >> pete
    >>
    >
    >

    ACPI works fine on my 3 year old Toshiba Satellite using FC3 out of the box.
    Not so well on my older Gateway Solos. They run into a year 2000 failure. 

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