I suspect he is better to download the kernel source for his distro and kernel version - otherwise other things may break.
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 21:00, Peter Elliott wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:04:22 +1200 > Nick Brettell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:17:55 +1200 > > > Nick Rout wrote: > > > > > >> It may need acpi turned on in the kernel. I assume you have done the > > >> usual google searches? and the linux laptops page? > > > > > > > Yes, but I'm don't really know how to go about recompiling or patching the > > kernel... I'm still fairly new to linux, and I don't want to try it when I > > don't know what I'm doing. Maybe someone could give me a hand with all of > > this? > > > > > well ok. > one word of warning is that not having a laptop myself i'm not overly familiar with > the ins and outs of acpi. not at all. > however, apart from that, i'd be quite happy to give you a helping hand with it. > i assume you'd like to get it done before the meeting at the end of this month? > > so. first question: > how are you fixed re downloading the kernel source - are you able to do that? > we just want the plain vanilla tarball from kernel.org (for version 2.2.20). > > cheers > peter > >
