ACPI as in the stuff that turns your machine off your you? Or have I
been in front of a monitor too long and am getting this wrong?
If I'm right and it is the stuff that powers down your machine, any
idea where to get it?
Robert MacLean
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Petri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jason Guidry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Linux-Mandrake Newbie
(E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] ACPID misery
> >
> > My K-6 based laptop is haveing some power management problems.
The ACPI
> > daemon fails on boot (Not found).
>
> I made a post about this a while ago and no one responded...
> Anyway, I found out the answer today: ACPI is not compiled into your
kernel.
> It is currently experimental (I think) and it doesn't seem to do
anything for my computer anyway!
> If you really want it, then download the appropriate kernel SRPMS
(or whatever) from Mandrake and compile it with ACPI.
>
> > I tried reinstalling it and it says
> > that it's already there. tried uninstalling it (in GUI) and it
says
> > it's not there :P
> >
>
> Could be a corrupted install?
>
> > is there some variation on an rpm command with a --force switch or
> > something? will that do it? is this common?
> >
>
> Yes, there is a force switch but I don't use RPM that much -- I use
kpackage.
> So I really don't know. Generally, you won't need to force anything
unless you have a corrupted install.
>
> Hope it helps,
> George
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