From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Constantinos Antoniou Subject: Re: General ACPI/Linux question Date: 26 Jan 2003 10:55:10 -0500 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <1043596509.1683.8.camel@nefeli> References: <1043546064.14472.9.camel@nefeli> <200301260823.35858.philippe@gcal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200301260823.35858.philippe-vlmYvWlZpDU@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Philippe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cl=E9ri=E9?= Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 08:23, Philippe Cl=E9ri=E9 wrote: > For what it's worth, I have ACPI working fine on a 1700T with=20 > Gentoo Linux and kernel 2.4.20-acpi-r9. As far as I can tell=20 > this kernel is vanilla + acpi 20021212. No modifications were=20 > needed.=20 >=20 This is very nice to hear.=20 > This is the first kernel I have tried that gave me some info on=20 > the battery. klaptop is working and shows a battery icon when=20 > on battery or an AC plug when on AC. And it pops up a message=20 > when battery power is low. But it does not show whether=20 > capacity is at 90, 50 or 20%.=20 >=20 Having the ability to (at least) gracefully shutdown is a "good thing" (TM) > I have not checked any of the sleep modes since I don't use them=20 > at all so I can't comment on that. >=20 Could you or anybody else perhaps provide some feedback on the attached image? I have compiled a vanilla 2.4.20 with acpi-20021212-2.4.20.diff. When I try to boot it freezes at the point of the attached (camera captured - ~280K image) point. http://mit.edu/costas/www/img_0092.jpg Please let me know if any other information would help. Thanks, Costas > For the moment I'm happy. >=20 > Regards, > Philippe >=20 > On Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:54, Constantinos Antoniou wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a laptop (Compaq Presarion 1700T) and would really > > really like to have some ACPI support (battery status is very > > important, suspend to ram or disk - anything faster than > > reboot- would be very very useful and welcome). > > > > I have not tried every possible trick, and in any case I am > > hoping to get some things working this year... either with > > the introduction of ACPI in RH8.1 or otherwise (ok, this is > > not flame-bait. Let me move on > > > > :)) This is not a system/problem specific post, however. > > > > My question is: One of the most usual things I see in the > > various newsgroup posts is that DSDT tables are buggy, and > > people need to disassemble them, edit them, replace them etc > > etc. However, windows power management on the same machines > > works. So what is the situation? > > > > The way I (don't) understand it, the ACPI implementation > > expects some things to be defined correctly in the DSDT > > table. However, some OSes manage to work with whatever is > > there. > > > > And to go one step further, if I change this DSDT thingie, > > will the ACPI functionality in the other OSes still work? So, > > would an option be to be more lenient (I understand that > > there are standards and people should respect them...) > > > > Thanks in advance and please be considerate in the replies - > > IANA ACPI expert. > > > > Costas --=20 Constantinos Antoniou Ph.D. Candidate Massachusetts Institute of Technology Intelligent Transportation Systems Program 77 Massachusetts Ave., NE20-208, Cambridge, MA 02139 (T) 617-252-1113 * (F) 617-252-1130 * (email) costas-3s7WtUTddSA@public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com