Power Management

[gateway9550]

Power Management support for Laptops

[zqex]

I'm still using 3123 on my laptop, because
it can be hacked to work with APM, and
a non-suspendable laptop is pretty useless.

Anybody knows of similar hacks for 4349?

Alternatively does the driver support
ACPI and is it possible to use ACPI on
linux?

The 2.4.? kernels have some support
for it, but I didn't have any luck in trying
to do ACPI suspend on a kernel with
support for it. (using Suse 8.0)

Newer distributions (and 2.5.?) should
have improved ACPI support, any experiences?

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Best Regards
Carsten Svaneborg

[Timbo]

Yes apm support would be nice :) - it's a pain to have to shutdown all the time. Of course I have no idea how trivial or not this is to implement, but I can appreciate it probably isn't too high on the priority list given the pressures of supporting the larger desktop market.

It would be nice however to get some sort of comment on whether supporting apm is a long or short term goal, or perhaps some insight into what the problem is with supporting it.

[Andy Mecham]

Yes, it is a feature that we are working on. I don't have a timetable for you, though.

Thanks!

--andy

[Timbo]

Aha!, good to hear :afro:

[hcarty]

Along the same line of fixes...are there any plans to support twinview and hotkey display switching for Toshiba laptops, specifically 28xx's?

Thanks,
Hez

[pkzln89]

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Yes, it is a feature that we are working on. I don't have a timetable for you, though.

Thanks!

--andy

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Yeah, it's the same answer I've seen on this
board a year ago.

[gateway9550]

Originally posted by Andy Mecham
Yes, it is a feature that we are working on. I don't have a timetable for you, though.

Thanks!

--andy

Hoping for the support by the time Redhat 10 is released ...