Richard Houser wrote: > I'm currently working on modifying the latest ACPI patch for the 2.4.19 > kernel to work on mandrake 2.4.19-8mdk kernel. I have no clue if my mod > will work, but I'll post it if it does (I'm about 3 hours in now and I > see a lot of inconsitencies in the variable names for the ACPI machine > width). > You might like to take a look at one of SUSE's kernel developer's kernel images. Last I heard, they've incorporated ACPI (2.5er acpi backport), but as I understand it, it won't work for other laptops that do not need ACPI, (like mine).
It's at: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/next > I think providing a kernel with ACPI support (or at least patching it in > disabled by default) would be a huge plus for any of the modern laptop > users. Running without any power management makes my machine very, > very, very hot and it gets less than a quarter battery life even after > modifying the hard disk spindown times. I dunno. My battery life under mdk is the slightly better than under win2k. Personally, even though my USB mouse, touch pad and ethernet card work fine with mdk's default kernels, I would have wanted to have the sound card and sonypi support included too. But since I prefer to slim down and recompile my own kernels from mdk's stock, it matters little to me. Besides, with a base spec file, it's very easy to create rpms of new mdk kernels with my hardware supported. -- Paolo There is a 3% difference in genetic material between us and apes. That is enough to give us Mozart, Einstein and Jack The Ripper.
