Thanks for clarifying, Michael. The big thing for me is that it'll be good to not have to patch and recompile a kernel in order to get the ACPI stuff working (like dimming the backlight when i pull the AC power out, automatically switching between the PS/2 port and the touchpad when i pull out/insert the mouse, adjust the brightness using the Fn keys, and of course, control the fan speed and use the battery-life monitor in gnome). the Compaq i'm using doesn't have APM support - they've removed it completely (apparently) and are just using ACPI. the one thing i am worried about is that when i patch/compile the kernel (the 2.4.20-20.9 kernel, from shrike), i lose my USB support, as well as start experiencing eratic behaviour when switching between PS/2 and touchpad pointer. I've submitted a bugzilla against shrike/acpi. I'm hopefull that whatever the problem is, it's either caused by me (i.e. some misconfiguration of my kernel or something) or it's resolved in the 2.4.22 fedora core release. -Dan On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Michael K. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:09:07PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:30:57PM +1000, 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. > > > > WRONG!!! 8-) > > The various components of ACPI are modular. If you boot with acpi=on, > > the startup scripts should auto-load them. > > I think Dan's quoting me. Our *purpose* is only for device > enumeration and initialization; my point was that we weren't > going to be adding swsusp patches (for instance) or in general > trying to deal with sleeping. > > michaelkjohnson > > "He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book." > Linux Application Development -- Ben Franklin > http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad/ > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- Regards, Dan Goodes : Systems Programmer : dang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Help support PlanetMirror - Australia's largest Internet archive by signing up for PlanetMirror Premium : http://planetmirror.com
