/proc/acpi/

Mike Partyka
2004-03-08T03:17:44Z

Hello all,

This is my first post to this group.

I just got a new laptop from work, a Gateway 200x, which i thought woudl
be perfect to make the transition to Linux dekstop for system
management.

I have read through many documents on the net about making ACPI work on
Linux. I have downloaded the latest kernel stable kernel source 2.6.3
and have patched that source with the latest acpi from
http://acpi.sourceforge.net and then compiled the kernel.

The compile using (make xconfig) doesn't look any different when looking
at the options.

But in any case after booting into it and looking in /proc/acpi and
looking into the battery and ac_adapter etc there are no scripts/events.
Is this normal? I just picked up the magazine Linux User and they had a
nice article about ACPI under Linux but the article says there should be
files under the directories battery, and ac_adapter etc but i have none.

This is a stock install of SuSE 9 Pro but it doesn't seem to have any
ACPI features enabled by default. How can i do this?

TIA
Mikey