Joseph Fannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2002 (12:22) : > > > btw, I did find one thing that you can do with APM. If the apm.o module is > > loaded, shutdown actually halts the system. If it isn't, shutdown leaves > > you at a "Power Off" prompt :-) > > (Whoops, I forgot to CC my last reply to the list.) > > Powering the machine off is all that ACPI seems to be good for ATM > as well, but I have some hope that the battery monitoring functions > could be fixed soon (at least, it seems close enough to working and I > have enough information to complain about it and hope someone who > knows what they are doing will try to fix it.) The battery socket gets > detected as long as there is no battery inserted at boottime; if a > battery is inserted after that, ACPI reports errors when trying to > query the battery status. > > I would be happy if anyone (with or without an i2500) wants to try > to help figuring out what is wrong with ACPI. ;-)
Could be fun, but I know little about ACPI or kernel programming in general. But please tell how one can see the bug-reports reported by ACPI. -- Preben Randhol �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.� -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
