From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Philippe =?iso-8859-1?q?Cl=E9ri=E9?= Subject: Re: General ACPI/Linux question Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 08:23:35 -0500 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <200301260823.35858.philippe@gcal.net> References: <1043546064.14472.9.camel@nefeli> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1043546064.14472.9.camel-coIz1MXBdV0@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org =46or 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 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 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. =46or 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 =2D-=20 Best regards, Philippe Cl=E9ri=E9 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com