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Re: Getting suspend mode working in Linux...is it possible



On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 02:29:53PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> No, I meant APCI---there being some hope that vendors will comply
> with this standard better than they comply with APM (if only because
> they can't possibly do much worse).

*chuckle* Trolling again, I see -- or just sarcasm ;)

> As for working with Linux, I haven't tried it, so it hasn't failed for
> me yet---a better record than APM has had ;-)

My last attempt at getting APCI to do _anything_ on my laptop was about a
month ago.  The guys doing the work have taken the right approach (userspace
daemon talking to a kernel backend, as opposed to the monolithic APM
design), but it just plain ain't usable yet.

-- Chris


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