I believe you still need to recompile your kernel after applying that patch. If a kernel is patched with that "fix", the config file will have a "CONFIG_ACPI_INITRD" option. Just check if the config file of your kernel has that option (for fedora, it's in /boot/config-*). - Jefferson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Bell" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 6:29 PM Subject: RE: ACPI disabled because your bios is from 00 and too old > On looking at this mailing list i found the site http://acpi.sourceforge.net > which appears to show that my problems are to do with something called the > DSDT. The site has a fix for my motherboard but in order to use it i would > have to recompile my kernel, i think, which isn't something ive ever done > before so i wouldn't really be comfortable doing it. On further reading it > appears someone has written a patch to enable people to change there DSDT > without recompiling there kernel everything ( > http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml ) which has been included with some distro's > of linux. Does anyone know if there is a change of having this included with > fedora? or if its already included and i dont know about it? > > thanks > Simon > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Dave Jones > Sent: 20 December 2003 19:30 > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: ACPI disabled because your bios is from 00 and too old > > On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 18:35, Simon Bell wrote: > > Ive recently installed fedora core 1 onto an old desktop machine. It has > an > > Abit BP6 motherboard with 2 533 celeron cpu's in it. According to the BIOS > > and manual, it is ACPI enabled, but when i enable it in grub.conf i get an > > error saying my bios is to old and i should use acpi=force > > > > Im just wondering what is actually wrong with my acpi bios? I was using > > power management on windows on this machine with no problems at all. Is it > > actually safe to enable acpi with the force option? > > Like all heuristics, sometimes it makes the wrong decision. > It doesn't actually know if its bad, but it does trap an awful > lot of bios's that are bad from that era. > > If you know for a fact that it works ok with acpi=force, filing > a bugzilla report with dmidecode info means we can whitelist it for > future kernels. > > You may also want to run the same question by acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxx > to make sure no-one there knows of something bad in these systems. > > Dave > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
