On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Root wrote:
> 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.
You might find some help here (found from www.linux-laptops.org):
http://www.flagar.com/en/linux_inspiron.html
It looks like APM in fact does not work on this machine. There's a
description there of getting ACPI to work with the latest Mandrake.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
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