meccax5 Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 does any one know if it has full blown support for acpi right off the bat or if there are any distro's that do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenLin Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Suse 9 is pretty good with acpi. It shuts off the display when I close the lid on my laptop. fans & disks only run when needed, too. I don't think linux can do hibernate(suspend to disk) yet, though. I wanted to try out Mandrake 10 and before the install begins the screen fills up with never-ending X error messages. not a good sign! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 KenLin, most notebook computers use APM. meccax5, Kernel 2.6 has improved ACPI support. It should do what you want it to do. I'm not sure about distros with 2.4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenLin Posted February 7, 2004 Share Posted February 7, 2004 I don't know if most use APM or not. Mine uses ACPI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienThree Posted February 7, 2004 Share Posted February 7, 2004 Mandrake 10 includes kernel 2.6, so ACPI support should be fine. 2.6 supports Suspend To Disk, with experimental support for Software Suspend and Sleep States. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meccax5 Posted February 7, 2004 Author Share Posted February 7, 2004 has anyone tested out mandrake 10 yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordHatrus Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 I installed Mandrake 10 on someone elses comp, but it was a desktop, not laptop. I was relatively unimpressed, but that's just because I feel the need to compile everything that hits my hard disk :rolleyes: :laugh: muuust.... compile... something...... Anyway, It's very.. ummm... nice looking! lol. The default settings are very good, boot directly into X, etc, other nice stuff.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meccax5 Posted February 8, 2004 Author Share Posted February 8, 2004 i have a desktop but still my acpi is messed up. i have a sony vaoi pcv rx641. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_canada Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 i think madrake 10 is only a beta, so i would wait till the final version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR_Candyman Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 tried it...as most distros do, it got messed up because of my cd-rom's ide-scsi converter (damn toshiba!) which somehow messes up my dvd capabilities and my pcmcia slots (though I can still use the cd-rom portion of my drive...go figure). didn't even get around to testing out how good the acpi was (mine uses it) as if it messes up doing the rest, I won't touch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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