ACPI on Sony Vaio Laptop

[Cliff Diamond]

Hi All,   I'm trying to get ACPI (battery and suspend functions) working on my Vaio PCG-GR290P. I'm a bit confused as to whether the kernel in Red Hat 8.0 includes ACPI support. ACPI is certainly not working on my laptop, yet there's the Battery Charge Monitor utility that would imply there's support in there somewhere.   Hunting around the Net it seems I might need to rebuild the kernel with the latest ACPI patches, but I've never done that before and don't even know if it's necessary.   Can anyone help?   Many thanks.   Cliff Diamond