On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:23 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > I am confused as to what power management technology I should be using. When > I installed debian etch on this powerpc Apple PowerBook, apm was used as > default. > > Things are working great here and I have no complaints. However, I understand > there is also ACPI, which is newer. > > Are there any advantages in switching to ACPI?
TTBOMK there's no ACPI on PowerPC at all. > Do I need to have hardware support for ACPI? Note this is a fairly old > laptop (round 6 years). As with all PowerMacs, even APM is just emulated on top of the native PMU/SMU then. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
