best acpi solution

[sjb <ottaky-XuTx12Z7TonQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Hi all,

I have a Sony Vaio U1 that, until yesterday, was running a Linux distro 
with functional ACPI. Sadly, the kernel I was using was compiled by 
somebody else, so I have very little idea what he actually did to make 
it. Details ..

http://www.ottaky.com/vaiou1.php

I've just upgraded to SuSE 8.2 (kernel 2.4.20) and the ACPI is broken - 
it's "partially" installed. All the hardware works (AFAIK), but there's 
no power management information available through /proc/acpi.

So .. I'm wondering what the best (easiset) way to get ACPI working is.

Can I download the 2.4.20 kernel source, apply the 2.4.20 acpi patch 
from sourceforge and cross my fingers?

Or use the DSDT in intird patch?

If there's a walk through somewhere on the interweb for ACPI kernel 
compiling newbies, a pointer to it would be great ;-)

Many thanks

sjb








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