Based on kernel version 4.16.1. Page generated on 2018-04-09 11:53 EST.
1 APM or ACPI? 2 ------------ 3 If you have a relatively recent x86 mobile, desktop, or server system, 4 odds are it supports either Advanced Power Management (APM) or 5 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI). ACPI is the newer 6 of the two technologies and puts power management in the hands of the 7 operating system, allowing for more intelligent power management than 8 is possible with BIOS controlled APM. 9 10 The best way to determine which, if either, your system supports is to 11 build a kernel with both ACPI and APM enabled (as of 2.3.x ACPI is 12 enabled by default). If a working ACPI implementation is found, the 13 ACPI driver will override and disable APM, otherwise the APM driver 14 will be used. 15 16 No, sorry, you cannot have both ACPI and APM enabled and running at 17 once. Some people with broken ACPI or broken APM implementations 18 would like to use both to get a full set of working features, but you 19 simply cannot mix and match the two. Only one power management 20 interface can be in control of the machine at once. Think about it.. 21 22 User-space Daemons 23 ------------------ 24 Both APM and ACPI rely on user-space daemons, apmd and acpid 25 respectively, to be completely functional. Obtain both of these 26 daemons from your Linux distribution or from the Internet (see below) 27 and be sure that they are started sometime in the system boot process. 28 Go ahead and start both. If ACPI or APM is not available on your 29 system the associated daemon will exit gracefully. 30 31 apmd: http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/a/apmd/ 32 acpid: http://acpid.sf.net/