On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 23:36, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 12/12/03 Travis Fraser did say: > > > Did you pass the option acpi=on to the kernel at boot? If you did, do > > you have a /proc/acpi directory? > > No. I just tried apm=off acpi=on, and the modules load. I have a > /proc/acpi directory. > However, I had to check from another window manager, as Gnome > locks-up every single time I try to login with acpi enabled! > > Anyone know of this issue? > Does the computer lockup totally when trying to use GNOME? Try switching to another vt and see if the battstat applet is running. I had to patch my applet to make it work with ACPI, otherwise GNOME was dog-slow with the battstat applet running. Travis Fraser
