On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Root wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 23:28, Lon Lentz wrote:
> >
> > A couple questions. Has it ever worked under RedHat? If so, what changed
> > before it stopped working? And, are you sure the power management on that
> > notebook is APM and not ACPI?
>
> 1. No, it has never worked, its a completely fresh install of RH 8.0
> 2. According to WinXP its ACPI. I guess that makes a difference. Does RH
> support ACPI?
Which model Dell is this? Have you tried linux-laptops.org or the Yahoo
dell-linux group (I don't recall the exact name of that).
The Latitude C6xx machines support both ACPI and APM, and APM worked for
me out of the box (modulo some minor quirks). Linux has some ACPI
support, but it is not turned on in the Red Hat kernel config and Red Hat
does not include the ACPI utilities in their distros. I don't think
everything necessarily works in Linux's ACPI yet, though. Of course,
Dell doesn't support Linux on their laptops, but it does work reasonably
well.
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