On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:13:29 +0100 Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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. > Ahhh very interesting...Thanks for clearing that up! No wonder acpi was not available on the debian powerpc repos!
