I have Suse 8.2 running on my new Dell Inspiron 300M.  However, ACPI is 
only barely working.  I can boot and I have acpid running but when KDE 
starts up, it can't detect the battery level and neither standby nor 
suspend works.  

Suse claims to have patched the 2.4 kernel with the ACPI support but the 
kernel parameters like acpi=force don't seem to work 
(http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/81_acpi.html).

I've never compiled a kernel before, so I'm a little intimidated by the 
prospect described in the 2 pages I could find on this machine: 
(http://www.frogsonice.com/300m.html and 
http://www.hoolehan.com/300mlinux/).

I'm attaching the output from
acpidmp FACP | acpitbl
and
acpidmp DSDT | acpidisasm
and
dmidecode
boot.msg

Any help would be deeply appreciated.

    - Carlo Maley

-- 
Carlo C. Maley, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
P.O. Box 19024
Seattle, WA 98109

phone: 206-667-4615
fax: 206-667-6132
cell: 206-355-7425

http://www.fhcrc.org/phs/barretts/cmaley/