On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 22:30, Dan Goodes wrote: > 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. > Actually, the support is there, I'm using it on my Compaq Presario 2715US, just add acpi=on to the end of your kernel line in grub like so: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2087.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi acpi=on > 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. I think the next release was going to be Fedora Core 1. hth, josh -- Joshua Legbandt <jtlegbandt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
