[Leaplist] Diffrences between Mepis 6.5 Vs. Mepis 7.0

[Randall Perry]

Since Mepis 7 is based on Debian etch, the following can be applied
(no all distros disable apm).
This is how to enable apm and disable acpi:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux-help/56680-how-suspend-my-debian-etch-laptop-wheres-apm.html

On 12/28/07, Randall Perry <randallp at hcrn.info> wrote:
> There is a bug regarding acpi in Mepis 7.0
> You probably also note that in that Turian notebook that you cannot
> simply hit the power button to shut it down (like you could in 6.5)
>
> You can disable acpi when booting.
>
> On 12/28/07, Ram K. Singh <rksingh54 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > Is it due to processors  in my two notebooks that I see Mepis 7.0 not so
> > desirable?  After all what is the bigger and/or better in Mepis 7.0?
> >
> > What is bigger and/or better in Mepis7.0 compared with Mepis 6.5? I have
> > Mepis 6.5 on my wife's notebook that has Athlon 64 processor, and that works
> > flawlessly. My notebook with Turian 64 has mepis 7.0 that hangs during
> > shutdown and goes in a tailspining loop during startup?
> >
> > Ram
> >
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