ACPI support

[Eric Katherman]

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
> > >>
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