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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:54 pm    Post subject: is there any point to acpi/apm support on a desktop? Reply with quote

i have acpi and apm support compiled into my kernel on my desktop. is there any point to that? can i turn all that off?

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You do not need both, but I think you need at least one so that the pc can turn itself of on shutdown. And ACPI does a lot more than just power management, i.e it is used to figure out pci irq routing and such, so it might be necessary on some pc's.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks. amps
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