Hey Guy's! Confused user here. I'm running Slackware 13.1 with Kernel 3.6.36 on an Toshiba Satellite A30-303.
My confusion lies with my inability to get ACPI to function properly. As per usual I'm forced to use "acpi=off" as kernel boot option to get it to boot. The only other option that does anything remotely usefull is "force=acpi pci=noacpi". The only problem with that is.... 1) Kernel will boot until an unspecified time (it varies wildely). I have to wait a few seconds and then wiggle my finger on the touchpad to get it to continue booting. I can then boot (hopefully) to runlevel 3 (multi-user without X). From there I'm stuck. X won't start and everything hangs. I don't have another machine I can ssh with to see if the kernel's still running, but I have tried to REISUB, but no success. 2) It just doesn't boot at all. Now, from many hours spent googling, I know that some laptops suffer from the whole buggy DSDT issue, and if I'm not mistaken, my laptop is a known suspect. I have also noticed on the ACPI page it suggested that the OEM DSDT should be left intact, as the kernel is expected to work around it. So, will a modified DSDT solve my problem? Will downloading ACPI from the project site and compiling it separately solve my issue? i.e. Will this be a newer, updated version than was shipped with Kernel 3.6.36? Should I just give up? Any suggestions will be gratefully appreciated. Many, many thanks in advance. Corne van Tonder
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