Everything I have ever read on power management states that the kernel will unload the ACPI stuff if it then loads APM. The other thing to get ACPI running is to turn APIC off as it conflicts.
The problem with the kernel patches is you need to find an ACPI patch for the specific Redhat kernel you have because Redhat patches the kernel with a lot of their own stuff. And the patch will either not install properly or cause other problems. One choice is to pull the plain kernel from kernel.org and then the ACPI patch from sourceforge. The only problem with this is that you will lose all of the Redhat specific patches. I don't know any details on what these are. I run Redhat on all of my servers but I run Mandrake on my laptop (I know, Heresy!!). There is a Mandrake kernel in their cooker section for their current distro that has the latest ACPI patches installed. It handles my Compaq Presario's power management quite well (including internal fans and cpu throttling). It also talks well with aKpi. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Arthur Mueller Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: APM -> ACPI support on Laptops Yea, the notebook should support ACPI as it is only one week old. In a very detailed article on ACPI with Linux some geeks write that 1. you still need APM. Why, dont' ask me. But I try removing it from the kernel. 2. currently only SuSE 8.1 distributes a patched kernel with full ACPI support. All the other kernels, inlcuding RedHat and kernel.org, won't work without an acpi-patch from sourceforge. I'm on the way to test it but failed in proceeding as I don't know how to patch a kernel. *sorry* Can you give me some advice here? I've a *.diff file. What do to with it? Regards, Arthur -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
