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.
