On Tuesday 20 September 2005 10:46, Prof. Prabhat Ranjan wrote: > I purchased a ~Rs 30K HP/Compaque TU2202 laptop. At the time of > installation I had to put put off acpi for proper installation. Later on I > have put a kernel parameter option for acpi and it works fine. > > I have found that most of the laptops/desktops acpi related issues seem to > give trouble since apparently many of the BIOSes do not have proper ACPI > support. You may want to look at that aspect.
http://acpi.sourceforge.net (or linux-acpi.sourceforge.net, forgot which)- where the kernel acpi patches are developed - has patched DSDTs for several laptop models [bios images that you can temporary load into memory for the duration of time you're booted into your laptop] Also instructions on how to make your own dsdt Worth a try I suppose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Suresh Ramasubramanian) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ mv linux Gnu/Linux mv: cannot move `linux' to `Gnu/Linux': No such file or directory jaharkes @ cs.cmu.edu in reply to RMS on linux.kernel ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
