On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:57:05AM -0500, MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote:
> Did you specify turning on ACPI as part of the bootloader configuration > during intstall? If not, you can go into the /lib/modules directory, and > unzip the modules and add the module names to the /etc/modules file to be > loaded on startup. There is ACPI support built into the kernel... Of course I turned on ACPI during install and installed and started acpi and acpid. But the only result of this is that all the correct and necessary acpi entries are visible under /proc/acpi (i.e. ac_adapter, battery, embedded_controller, processor, etc) That doesn't mean that anything actually 'works' or 'registers' anything. ACPI was the whole point of my installing mandrake-9.1 rc1. I don't really use mandrake (I generally use RH) but I was interested in how mandrake had succeeded with acpi. RH's first try with acpi (RH-8.1 beta 1) was a shambles. Allmost nothing (interesting) of acpi works in mandrake because the relevant items were not checked during the Mandrake kernel compilation. Look at /boot/config-2.4.21pre4-10mdk. Under the heading 'ACPI Support' you see that CONFIG_ACPI_AC, CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY, CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON, CONFIG_ACPI_FAN, CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR, CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL are all flagged with 'm' and not with 'y'. The things that were configured like 'BOOT', 'BUS', 'POWER', 'PCI', 'SLEEP' either work 'invisibly' (interrupts) or are prone to may errors like 'SLEEP' (standby, suspend, hibernate), because so many other things like pcmcia and video drivers interfere. So for example you only get stupid results like, after 'acpi -V': Battery 2: unknown, 0% Thermal 1: ok. 25.0 degrees C AC Adapter 1: on-line. The least I would like to see is the actual battery status on my laptop when not connected to a power outlet. And the correct status of both batteries when both are inserted. To get these things (if they work without errors) you have to recompile the kernel first. I think it would be advisable to get it all working first (at least in 98% of cases) before 9.1 comes out (with a fully acpi configured and compiled kernel). I don't think it would be advisable to tell a newbie to recompile the kernel because he/she has a laptop with acpi only BIOS. Alexander -- Year after year, the US has gone to elaborate lengths, spent enormous sums, taken great risks to build and keep weapons of mass destruction. But why? The only possible explanation, the only possible use it could have for those weapons, is to dominate, intimidate, or attack. (paraphrasing from empty warheads state of the union)
