--- Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@phobos.fs.tum.de>
wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Andy Henroid wrote:
>
> > Right, APM is not being engaged when it is
> > overriden by ACPI so I wouldn't expect APM
> > suspend to work at all. Further, once acpid
> > is started, ACPI is enabled in the BIOS. After
> > that any attempt to use APM features is going
> > to fail (yes, even after acpid is killed).
>
> According to the spec, it is possible to go back to
> legacy mode, if the system supports legacy at all.
> If you'd initialize and engage APM after disabling
> ACPI, it should work, at least theoretically... :-)
Right, you can turn off ACPI and return to legacy
mode. Unfortunately, I've encountered systems that
are completely broken for ACPI disable. The lack
of testing for this feature is somewhat understandable
as most times the operating system turns on ACPI and
leaves it on through power off.
-Andy
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