Glenn Meyer wrote:
> I use a Compaq Armada M700 Pentium 3 (700MHz) laptop. I'm having
> problems with the system completely and immediately freezing up
> whenever the power is connected or disconnected from the laptop.
>
> I'm currently using Slackware 10.1 but had the same issue with Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux AS 4.0
>
> Can someone help me understand how Linux works with the hardware for
> power management? Am I looking up the right tree?
>
> Thank you!
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Although others will disagree greatly with me for this, my experience
has taught me to just turn it off. I have burned up RAM and reached
thermal shutdown on a laptop trying to run power management. It may have
gotten better since 2.6.1, but I still don't trust it.. not after a few
hundred dollars in ram getting fried because APM didn't turn the fan on...
Generally, power management is handled by the system bios, although its
missing a few of the nifty features, the basics work.. speedstep
(assuming you're using intel), and things like that.
just my $0.02
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