Re: [newbie] acpi / upgrade kernel

2005-01-08 Thread JR
On Friday 07 January 2005 09:19 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 08 January 2005 12:39 am, JR wrote: > > Greg, thanks. I've just downloaded them and I ran the kde laptop battery > > program. I tried standby, suspend and hibernate. The screen goes to > > console with a message saying that it is p

Re: [newbie] acpi / upgrade kernel

2005-01-07 Thread John Layt
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:19, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 08 January 2005 12:39 am, JR wrote: > > Greg, thanks. I've just downloaded them and I ran the kde laptop battery > > program. I tried standby, suspend and hibernate. The screen goes to > > console with a message saying that it is performing

Re: [newbie] acpi / upgrade kernel

2005-01-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 08 January 2005 12:39 am, JR wrote: > Greg, thanks. I've just downloaded them and I ran the kde laptop battery > program. I tried standby, suspend and hibernate. The screen goes to console > with a message saying that it is performing the appropriate action. But > then it returns to the

Re: [newbie] acpi / upgrade kernel

2005-01-07 Thread JR
Greg, thanks. I've just downloaded them and I ran the kde laptop battery program. I tried standby, suspend and hibernate. The screen goes to console with a message saying that it is performing the appropriate action. But then it returns to the desktop. And the klaptopbattery is not shown in the

Re: [newbie] acpi / upgrade kernel

2005-01-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 07 January 2005 11:52 pm, JR wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to get acpi working? Or failing that, to upgrade the > kernel to 2.6.10? > > I've tried setting the kernel boot options to acpi=on and 'noapic' but I > still dont have acpi > Do you have the acpi and acpid packages installed? --