Re: ACPI status in 2.5.x/2.6.0

Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-07-09T08:55:30Z

On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 10:44, Daniel wrote:
> I have a Compaq Laptop (*shiver*) and present distro versions featuring
> the 2.4.x kernel seem to panic or lock on bootup on my laptop. I was
> wondering if ACPI was better supported in the 2.5.x kernel branch/2.6.0
> pre-kernel. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> It would lock when attempting to read my partition table on device 'hda'
> (my hard disk), or would panic when attempting to initalize the USB device.

I think the best you can do it's trying by yourself :-)
For me, ACPI in 2.5 kernels do work better than in 2.4.