Re: ACPI Support Is Improving Amazingly

Matthew Harrell (lists-sender-14a37a@bittwiddlers.com)
Mon, 6 Jan 2003 19:22:43 -0500

> I must say, in 2.5.54 I am *extremely* impressed by ACPI and how far it
> has excelled over APM. I used to never be able to have my computer
> automatically power off when I halted the system but now with ACPI it
> goes off! This is quite a trivial task too for this is an eMachine and
> imho it has a weird button setup period. Many thanks to the developers
> and maintainers of ACPI, keep up the good work.

That's funny since I was just cursing the ACPI code a little while ago.
Beginning around 2.5.51 I have to boot with "acpi=off" to avoid having the
machine slow to a crawl and never actually finish booting up. 

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