I thought - great, new fedora release, let's look at the release notes to see what's in store. WHOA!!! perfect!!! built-in ACPI support!!! no more rebuilding custom kernels to handle power management and so on... right? WRONG!!! *sigh* it's only going to be used for device enumeration, not power management and so on. I have a fairly new, low-end Compaq notebook that only has an ACPI subsystem, no APM. So in order to get power management and various other little tricks (specifically changing the display brightness and auto-switching between the touchpad and the PS/2 mouse), i had to compile up a custom kernel, patched with ACPI support. Please please please please please can we try to get power management and stuff into the ACPI support before Fedora Core 9.1 (or 10, or are they numbering the releases from 1 again?). Everything else about this release has me excited - but I probably wont be upgrading my notebook until this is sorted. Oh and one more thing - someone plese wave a wand and get 2D/3D accelerated support for the Radeon Mobility U1 (IGP 320M) into the kernel and auto-detecting at install :-) Now *that* would be sweet.
