if you check the forum for info about power management and acpi you arrive at pakt's post from Sep 23 http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=14731#14731 and his problem:
I've done the same on my acer aspire 1300 and got the same message.After booting Puppy 1.0.5RC on my Dell Inspiron 510m (pressed return, ie option 1),I installed G2's new wmpower.pup, ran it in rxvt and got:
# wmpower
Welcome to wmpower version 0.3.1...
No power management subsystem detected
wmpower: No power management support...
Hmmm...what's this? Kanotix has no problem activating APCI on this laptop.
Am I forgetting something or doing something wrong?
questions:
- is this the only way to check if power management is enabled?
- if power management is really disabled/not supported ->why?
- does disabled power management mean that my cpu is running at full blast all the time (which would explain the near-constant fan blowing)?
thanks,
dshlb
ps: adding a funky poll to see if this affects many users