Ah yeah. Sounds good. Well, I'm no longer using the RedHat kernel - instead I installed 2.4.20 from kernel.org. So the ACPI-patches should work.
I'll keep you up to date - weather I succeed or not. Here in Germany it's going to be very very late... :-) Regards, Arthur Miller On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 22:23, Lon Lentz wrote: > > Everything I have ever read on power management states that the kernel > will unload the ACPI stuff if it then loads APM. The other thing to get ACPI > running is to turn APIC off as it conflicts. > > The problem with the kernel patches is you need to find an ACPI patch for > the specific Redhat kernel you have because Redhat patches the kernel with a > lot of their own stuff. And the patch will either not install properly or > cause other problems. > > One choice is to pull the plain kernel from kernel.org and then the ACPI > patch from sourceforge. The only problem with this is that you will lose all > of the Redhat specific patches. I don't know any details on what these are. > > I run Redhat on all of my servers but I run Mandrake on my laptop (I know, > Heresy!!). There is a Mandrake kernel in their cooker section for their > current distro that has the latest ACPI patches installed. It handles my > Compaq Presario's power management quite well (including internal fans and > cpu throttling). It also talks well with aKpi. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Arthur Mueller > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: APM -> ACPI support on Laptops > > > Yea, the notebook should support ACPI as it is only one week old. In a > very detailed article on ACPI with Linux some geeks write that > 1. you still need APM. Why, dont' ask me. But I try removing it from the > kernel. > 2. currently only SuSE 8.1 distributes a patched kernel with full ACPI > support. All the other kernels, inlcuding RedHat and kernel.org, won't > work without an acpi-patch from sourceforge. > > I'm on the way to test it but failed in proceeding as I don't know how > to patch a kernel. *sorry* Can you give me some advice here? I've a > *.diff file. What do to with it? > > Regards, > Arthur > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
