Re: acpitool vs acpi-support

2009-11-15 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 11/14/09, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > The acpitool and acpi-support look very similar to me: > > acpitool: > > acpi-support: > > ... > > -- > Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) In the old days I used to have both installed. However the support provided by acpi-support, which something acpitoo

Re: acpitool vs acpi-support

2009-11-15 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 15. 11. 2009 06:47:14 je T o n g napisal(a): I can only say that I have acpi-support installed on my laptop, as opposed to acpitool. I suppose it got installed automatically by the "laptop" task, but can't positively confirm that. IMHO certain ACPI packages would be more suited for certain

acpitool vs acpi-support

2009-11-14 Thread T o n g
Hi, The acpitool and acpi-support look very similar to me: acpitool: acpi-support: The primary target audience are laptop users, since these people are most interested in things like battery status, thermal status and the ability to suspend (sleep mode). The program simply accesses the /proc/