3 If you have a relatively recent x86 mobile, desktop, or server system,
4 odds are it supports either Advanced Power Management (APM) or
5 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI). ACPI is the newer
6 of the two technologies and puts power management in the hands of the
7 operating system, allowing for more intelligent power management than
8 is possible with BIOS controlled APM.
10 The best way to determine which, if either, your system supports is to
11 build a kernel with both ACPI and APM enabled (as of 2.3.x ACPI is
12 enabled by default). If a working ACPI implementation is found, the
13 ACPI driver will override and disable APM, otherwise the APM driver
16 No, sorry, you cannot have both ACPI and APM enabled and running at
17 once. Some people with broken ACPI or broken APM implementations
18 would like to use both to get a full set of working features, but you
19 simply cannot mix and match the two. Only one power management
20 interface can be in control of the machine at once. Think about it..
24 Both APM and ACPI rely on user-space daemons, apmd and acpid
25 respectively, to be completely functional. Obtain both of these
26 daemons from your Linux distribution or from the Internet (see below)
27 and be sure that they are started sometime in the system boot process.
28 Go ahead and start both. If ACPI or APM is not available on your
29 system the associated daemon will exit gracefully.
31 apmd: http://worldvisions.ca/~apenwarr/apmd/
32 acpid: http://acpid.sf.net/