In SuSE 8.1 I was faced with the same problem. I just appended acpi=off to my bootloader config file. Now I can see the battery status as well as suspend the computer. On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 08:52, Liberty Young wrote: > Lee, > I'm also using 8.2, and i wasn't happy with it's acpi stuff. I > downloaded the 2.4.19 kernel and applied the acpi patches, and now i > have _some_ power management stuff working. The real reason why i did > that was because i wanted battery status for my laptop that was only > available through acpi. > If i were you, i'd download the 2.4.20 kernel and apply the acpi > patches. As far as GUI stuff, well, with 8.2, you're out of luck....all > the deamons and utilities work through APM...I'm not sure if KDE3 or > Gnome2 have updated their utilities to work with ACPI > > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 07:26, Lee Einer wrote: > > Thanks, Bryce- > > > > > > I tried that command-- it does shut down Linux, but that's not precisely > > what I'm after. I can do that with the GUI. APM provided power > > management by automatically shutting down fans, suspending the hard > > drive, etc if there was no activity within a specified time frame. APCI > > should have the same capability, but I have checked the Kernel > > Configurator and APCI is not configured in my kernel. From some stuff I > > have read on the internet, I am not entirely sure that APCI for Linux > > has this capability even if I do get it configured in the kernel. My > > exposure to this issue has been only a few hours, so I don't really know > > diddly about APCI, except that it delegates power management tasks to > > the OS which were previously managed by the bios under APM. I don't want > > my PC, fans, hard drive etc up and running 24/7, but it rankles me to > > have to shut down and reboot regularly. I would like to get the sleep > > and suspend features working under APCI, or at least find out if I need > > to live with the status quo, and if there are any work-arounds. > > > > > > Bryce C wrote: > > > > >My mandrake kernel has it already compiled in. Try 'shutdown -h now' > > >and see if it shuts off. > > > > > >On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 20:35, Lee Einer wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, all- > > >> > > >>Has anyone been sucessful installing and configuring ACPI support under > > >>Mandrake 8.2? I just built a new PC and the bios allow power management > > >>witht ACPI only. I would really like to know how to set this up, if it > > >>is possible. > > >> > > >>Thanks, > > >> > > >>Lee Einer > > >> > > >>--------------------------------------------------- > > >>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > >>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > >>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > >> > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Eric Katherman