[Debian-eeepc-devel] Update Debian wiki for eeePC

Ben Armstrong synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca
Tue Jul 5 02:08:16 UTC 2011


On 07/04/2011 04:57 PM, Simon Linden wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> in the debian wiki for eeePC I found:
> 
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure#Power_management_.26_hotkeys
> 
> "If you are installing it yourself, please note that this package conflicts 
> with acpi-support; as root, you must apt-get purge acpi-support: this removes 
> all of the acpi-support scripts that would remain in /etc. If you do not 
> follow this step, you will cause conflicts. "
> 
> As with eeepc-acpi-scripts (1.1.11) I found in the changelog:
> ...
>   [ Luca Niccoli]
>   * Stop conflicting with acpi-support, start depending on it.
>   * Do not handle things that are already handled by acpi-support.
> ...
> 
> I installed eeepc-acpi-scripts (1.1.11) on my box and acpi-support was pulled 
> on my system as a dependency. Please update the wiki if this documentation 
> isn't up to date.
> 
> thanks for your work & best regards!

Debian Wheezy has not been released yet. The wiki reflects the state of
things for Squeeze, the current stable release of Debian, and so far as
that release is concerned is still correct.

Ben



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