Re: [ACPI] ACPI _and_ APM ??

[Ducrot B. <du...@po...>]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 07:56:07AM -0800, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> > From: Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) 
> > Just curious if this should / shouldn't work ...
> > 
> > I've a Sony Vaio FX401 - AMD 800 512MB laptop, which works great with
> > almost any given version of the ACPI patches... unfortunately with the
> > way I've got the machine configured and the amount of RAM 
> > it's faster to
> > shutdown -h and reboot than to use SWSUSP (sorry Pavel !)
> > 
> > I have noticed that the APM suspend-to-ram works nicely (well 
> > apart from
> > the VTs blanking, but that's the FB code ..) and even returns cleanly
> > ... and I was wondering if there's any real reason one 
> > couldn't use both
> > ACPI for config etc and APM for sleeping ?
> > 
> > Or am I losing the plot altogether ?
> 
> They're not designed to coexist. Therefore, most likely, they won't. You
> can try disabling the mutual exclusivity checks in the kernel and see
> what happens, but this isn't that we can advocate for widespread use.
> 

I doubt this will be a good idea.  At least, some events will be configured by
the BIOS in order to generate DMI# under APM and SCI under ACPI.

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