On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 01:50, Steve Cape wrote: > > I've done a fresh install of Fedora Core 1 on a Dell Latitude C600 <snip> > > ---with "acpi=on" shutdown doesn't work completely. It appears to go through the > whole shutdown > process, but hangs with a blank screen after "power down". I haven't seen a > solution posted that > works for me. > The Fedora 2.4 kernel does not have the latest ACPI patches. I used a small patch from the newest ACPI code that enables poweroff on shutdown for the version of ACPI that comes with updated kernel; if you want it, email me off list. > ---with "acpi=on" USB mouse movement is jerky for me as well. I keep a System > Monitor applet > on my panel and noticed regular spikes in processor activity, which I correlated > to the Battery > Charge Monitor applet (battstat-applet-2). I removed this applet from my panel > and mouse > movement is no longer jerky. Don't know why this works (something to do with > acpi, probably). > This is not really a good solution since you can't monitor the battery charge, > but I will use it until > I find a true fix. > I had to patch the battstat applet to get it to work with ACPI. See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104292 and http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129167. Travis Fraser
