Re: ACPI status in 2.5.x/2.6.0

Davide Libenzi
2003-07-09T16:33:21Z

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, 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.

If it uses a SiS650 chipset you can try this :

http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/misc.html#SiSRt

Even if I am not much confident about success in your case. Also, I
believe Alan was working of fixing ACPI for SiS. You might want to check.

- Davide