pcmcia eject saves power (was Re: [TriLUG] laptop on-net/off-net)

[M. Mueller (bhu5nji)]

On Sunday 17 March 2002 02:12 pm, you wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 13:29, M. Mueller (bhu5nji) wrote:
> > I have sound.
>
> IK don't because I've not applied the right kernel patches (yet) for my
> ACPI & ACPI Sound card.

I looked at the ACPI kernel options for the first time.  I turned 'em all on. 
No time like the present to start another project.  I turned APM off.  There 
was a terse and dire warning on the ACPI-Thermal option: laptop CPU might get 
toasted with thermal power management disabled.  I've been running for nearly 
8 months continuously, so I guess I'm not in that category.  THat's a pretty 
serious warning though.  Is it a over the top or should sirens be going off 
for all Linux Toshiba and Compaq laptop users (they are most likely to be 
using APCI right now: http://www.acpi.info/index.html, 
http://phobos.fs.tum.de/acpi/)?


-- 
Mike  M.

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