It seems that the last two kernels have lost the "acpi tweaked table" option, 
so I can't use acpi anymore because of my Presario 2800 non-standard acpi 
implementation (or I have to patch the kernel myself). Could you please put 
back this option for next releases ?

Regards,

Sebastien.


Le Samedi 8 F�vrier 2003 17:55, Adam Williamson a �crit :
> On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 16:18, [Bug 1422] wrote:
> > https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422
> >
> >            Product: kernel
> >          Component: libsasl2-plug-ntlm
> >            Summary: no apm support
> >            Version: 2.4.21-0.pre4.4mdk
> >           Platform: PC
> >         OS/Version: All
> >             Status: UNCONFIRMED
> >           Severity: normal
> >           Priority: P2
> >         AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >         ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > There is no default support for APM in the kernel. As a result, applets
> > like the battery status (gnome) does not work.
>
> I think bugs like this indicate the current state of ACPI is inadequate.
> We don't really want to ship a distribution which appears, to laptop
> users, to have no power management support. There really needs to be
> some kind of improvement. Ideally, DrakX should somehow determine if
> it's running on a laptop and have the appropriate ACPI modules loaded
> during startup; then we could institute some kind of blacklist for
> laptops on which ACPI doesn't work. But the current state of affairs is
> not satisfactory. The documentation for ACPI is atrocious, and users
> simply won't know to load the ac, battery etc. modules.


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