From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Derek Broughton Subject: Re: best acpi solution Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 09:00:05 -0300 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <01db01c31f90$84ae6840$3746028e@bio.dfo.ca> References: <3ECB3CE2.5000400@ottaky.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: ACPI List List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org From: "sjb" > > 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. The _easiest_ would almost certainly be to continue using the kernel you already had... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge