Re: Re: Acer Travelmate 4000LCi - Newbie

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2005-hi6Y0CQ0nG0@public.gmane.org>]

Johan Vromans schrieb:
> Hi Bo,
> 
> If Suse provides for DSDT overriding upon boot (I've heard some
> rumours on that, but I'm not familiar with Suse) _AND_ someone can

Yes, that function is indeed shipped by SUSE. IIRC the handbook
mentions how to do it.

> provide an augmented DSDT for your particular notebook, it would be as
> easy as installing a file and rebooting. But that would require

It's a bit different: Copy new DSDT to a specific location, set
ACPI_DSDT="location_of_DSDT" in /etc/sysconfig/kernel, run mkinitrd
and reboot.

> assistance of another Travelmate 4000LCi user.
> 
> Otherwise, my suggestion would be to consult the Suse mailing lists on
> how to re-create your current (installed) kernel. When you are able to
> do that, I'd advise to take Rich Townsends sbs module that implements
> the classical battery status API.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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