ACPI options

dmart7 · 27th Apr 2007, 05:34 AM

The "Quick Guide" to "ACPI 2.0 Support" seems to be ambiguous:

It says disabling ACPI 2.0 "turns on the original ACPI 1.0 standard". Yet a few lines down it says "If disabled, ACPI support will be disabled....."

These seem contradictory. Grateful for advice.

Adrian Wong · 18th May 2007, 01:08 AM

Oops. Bad phrasing. It sounds much better in the full version.

What it means is this BIOS feature doesn't actually turn on ACPI 2.0 or ACPI 1.0. It just turns ACPI on or off. When the BIOS feature is called ACPI 2.0 Support, it merely means the motherboard supports ACPI 2.0, and not that it can choose which version of ACPI to support.

Hope that clears up the confusion. I will reword the page. Thanks!

27th Apr 2007, 05:34 AM	#1 (permalink)
dmart7 Newbie Join Date: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 1 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	ACPI options The "Quick Guide" to "ACPI 2.0 Support" seems to be ambiguous: It says disabling ACPI 2.0 "turns on the original ACPI 1.0 standard". Yet a few lines down it says "If disabled, ACPI support will be disabled....." These seem contradictory. Grateful for advice.

18th May 2007, 01:08 AM	#2 (permalink)
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