Re: General ACPI/Linux question

["Philippe Clérié" <philippe-vlmYvWlZpDU@public.gmane.org>]

For what it's worth, I have ACPI working fine on a 1700T with 
Gentoo Linux and kernel 2.4.20-acpi-r9. As far as I can tell 
this kernel is vanilla + acpi 20021212. No modifications were 
needed. 

This is the first kernel I have tried that gave me some info on 
the battery. klaptop is working and shows a battery icon when 
on battery or an AC plug when on AC. And it pops up a message 
when battery power is low. But it does not show whether 
capacity is at 90, 50 or 20%. 

I have not checked any of the sleep modes since I don't use them 
at all so I can't comment on that.

For the moment I'm happy.

Regards,
Philippe

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

-- 
Best regards,
Philippe Clérié


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