ACPI support

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
> >>
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