On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 10:02:49AM -0400, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 10:05:31AM +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote:
I had never thought about it, but you mean that to allow the bios setup screens to come up during an X session something like 'suspend to memory' had to be invoked first.
No, I mean that when ACPI initializes, APM services are explicitly disabled. Otherwise the machine would not comply with the ACPI standard. You can't both have ACPI and APM suspend the machine. If ACPI is enabled, the button press MUST be processed by ACPI; it cannot be processed by APM, and if ACPI doesn't process it, it can't be processed.
Thanks for the explanation. I had not known or realized that APM was involved when pressing the 'Fn-setup' key combination to access the bios setup (when I was running the machine under APM).
Alexander