Re: best acpi solution

Derek Broughton
2003-05-21T12:00:05Z

From: "sjb" <ottaky-XuTx12Z7TonQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
>
> 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.

The _easiest_ would almost certainly be to continue using the kernel you already
had...