-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Juan Paolo Carballo wrote: | 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. |
It sounds a lot like your laptop supports APM. Many of the newer laptops such as the Compaq Presario 700 series are 100% ACPI and include none of the legacy APM support. With the linus 2.4.18 kernel, ACPI + kacpi patch, and compaq sound patch, I do indeed get better battery life than under Windows. My issue is that the mandrake-kernel already includes small parts of the ACPI patch and various other patches on the same files. Merging in the ACPI4Linux patch is causing me a lot of grief lately. I will need much of the functionality in the Mandrake kernels such as IPSec soon. I might give that SUSE kernel a look too, might make the porting a bit easier if I see the patches they used. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj14OFQACgkQUMkt1ZRwL1N5LwCffEPO56vLa2lKOyfmrg/8CL1h lrcAn0+GRUkFMdWSrEpawfUXp9vs9PGd =vbDM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
