Subject: apm vs acpi
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/03/2007 06:10:19
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Hello all,

   As far as I understand it, APM is "the old tech", and ACPI is the
"new tech". i.e. they are mutually exclusive. Right?

   But ACPI is such a complex beast that it is not completely (and
properly) implemented in most systems.

   Is this about right, or is it completely wrong?

   I read somewhere that you need apm enabled for NetBSD to shut the
power off on i386 systems (and amd64, I assume). But if I have ACPI, but
not APM, shouldn't that be able to handle shutting the power off. At
least in theory?

--=20
Kind regards,
Jan Danielsson



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