best acpi solution

sjb
2003-05-21T08:46:26Z

Hi all,

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.

Can I download the 2.4.20 kernel source, apply the 2.4.20 acpi patch
from sourceforge and cross my fingers?

Or use the DSDT in intird patch?

If there's a walk through somewhere on the interweb for ACPI kernel
compiling newbies, a pointer to it would be great ;-)

Many thanks