http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2761





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i don't understand why is primitive ? that the way we do get
information when we where using apm, you may try to boot with
acpi=oldboot and have information from apm.




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Dell Inspiron i8200 laptop with Mandrake-9.1 RC2 and kernel-enterprise (mem=1024).

Exactly the same situation as with bug #2532 on an i8100.
No problems with acpi during install.
Shutdown/poweroff and reboot work perfectly.
But some/most of the acpi modules are not working!

I am not interested in the fact that suspend to ram/disk do not work and
hang the laptop at reboot. I don't use them. 

But being able to see battery status is important (2 batteries in laptop)!
This is not working at all!
Neither is temperature: it always shows 25 C!

In this case (i8200) I am sure that the BIOS/ACPI is OK.
(even though I get the same messages in 'dmesg' as in #2532)
Everything worked flawlessly with WinXP when the laptop came.

This must be the Linux kernel acpi patch: not 'ripe' enough.

By the way wouldn't it be advisable to include a package like 'kacpi' for use
with acpi. Working with 'acpi' and '/proc/acpi' is a bit "primitive"

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