On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 19:22, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Root wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 23:28, Lon Lentz wrote: > > > > > > A couple questions. Has it ever worked under RedHat? If so, what changed > > > before it stopped working? And, are you sure the power management on that > > > notebook is APM and not ACPI? > > > > 1. No, it has never worked, its a completely fresh install of RH 8.0 > > 2. According to WinXP its ACPI. I guess that makes a difference. Does RH > > support ACPI? > > Which model Dell is this? Have you tried linux-laptops.org or the Yahoo > dell-linux group (I don't recall the exact name of that). > > The Latitude C6xx machines support both ACPI and APM, and APM worked for > me out of the box (modulo some minor quirks). Linux has some ACPI > support, but it is not turned on in the Red Hat kernel config and Red Hat > does not include the ACPI utilities in their distros. I don't think > everything necessarily works in Linux's ACPI yet, though. Of course, > Dell doesn't support Linux on their laptops, but it does work reasonably > well. > Its an Inspiron 2500 (PIII Celeron 900, I think) Having been following the advice about enabling it in the kernel given by someone earlier, I've found the option for ACPI under the "General" section on the kernel config, but its greyed out, indicating (I think) that its not available. Is that right? If I'm wrong about this, I'd be more than happy if anyone can tell me how to enable it.
Its a bit of a pain, as I have no idea about the state of the battery. I have to periodically boot into XP <spits on ground in disgust> to check its not about to die on me when I'm out and about. I've only been using RH for a few days, but already its become my primary OS, its way better than Windows. If I could just some sort of indication about the battery, I'd be 100% converted. And thats saying something, considering my main job is Solaris support. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
