1 ============ 2 APM or ACPI? 3 ============ 4 5 If you have a relatively recent x86 mobile, desktop, or server system, 6 odds are it supports either Advanced Power Management (APM) or 7 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI). ACPI is the newer 8 of the two technologies and puts power management in the hands of the 9 operating system, allowing for more intelligent power management than 10 is possible with BIOS controlled APM. 11 12 The best way to determine which, if either, your system supports is to 13 build a kernel with both ACPI and APM enabled (as of 2.3.x ACPI is 14 enabled by default). If a working ACPI implementation is found, the 15 ACPI driver will override and disable APM, otherwise the APM driver 16 will be used. 17 18 No, sorry, you cannot have both ACPI and APM enabled and running at 19 once. Some people with broken ACPI or broken APM implementations 20 would like to use both to get a full set of working features, but you 21 simply cannot mix and match the two. Only one power management 22 interface can be in control of the machine at once. Think about it.. 23 24 User-space Daemons 25 ------------------ 26 Both APM and ACPI rely on user-space daemons, apmd and acpid 27 respectively, to be completely functional. Obtain both of these 28 daemons from your Linux distribution or from the Internet (see below) 29 and be sure that they are started sometime in the system boot process. 30 Go ahead and start both. If ACPI or APM is not available on your 31 system the associated daemon will exit gracefully. 32 33 ===== ======================================= 34 apmd http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/a/apmd/ 35 acpid http://acpid.sf.net/ 36 ===== =======================================
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