On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 07:07:50PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
So I have an ibm x23 laptop. nothing terribly fancy. With severn I
noticed that the sound played far too slowly. Meaning - when I played an
ogg it sounded like it was being played at the wrong speed if it were a
record.
So I filed a bug about it b/c the sound worked under rhl 9 just fine.
The suggestion was to disable acpi and see if that fixed it.
it did. the sound works as expected now. However, the laptop runs a lot
hotter than it used to.
That sounds like a bug -- you should get APM if acpi is disabled;
if you don't, then filing a bug would be good.
So I was wondering if someone could explain the acpi stuff in more
details. It was proposed to me by someone on #rhl-devel that maybe
someone here could give an uncensored summary of the acpi stuff in the
kernel and it's relative stability level, etc.
Well, IRT relative stability, go to bugzilla and do a query for kernel
bugs, and look to see how many of them go away when acpi=off is
specified.
A lot of the bits of ACPI don't really work under 2.4, including sleeping.
The only reason we included it was for the configuration bits -- device
enumeration. As an "APM replacement" it really isn't quite all there in
2.4.
michaelkjohnson
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