On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Frederic Herman wrote: > David Hart wrote: > > >On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 08:05, Vivek Shankar wrote: > > > > > >>Hello list, > >> > >>Is ACPI enabled in the stock kernel? acpid is running but i dont see > >>/proc/acpi. Any other advice on getting to soft-off my machine? Thanks. > >> > >> > >> > > > >It is NOT but is easy to compile in. According to the Kernel docs, you > >cannot run both ACPI and APM. If both are compiled in, whichever shall > >first load - runs. > > > >When I say that it's easy - we compiled ACPI into 2.4.21 on some > >desktops and solved some poweroff problems. I have NOT tried in on a > >laptop but probably should. > > > > > > > > > My problem with non-stock kernels, is that then you are commiting to > compiling the kernel whenever there is an update. I have enough systems > to maintain that I don't want to use custom kernels. It's too bad it > wasn't imp[lemented as a loadable module. > > Fred
If I remember correctly it was intended to be included in the stock kernel but Redhat found in their testing that it was too unstable to release. They took it out at the last minute. -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
