I just set up my Sony Vaio PCG-FX270K with FC1 and was setting up acpi. Works beautifully... comments below.... On Wednesday 14 January 2004 08:55, J. Erik Hemdal wrote: > I got acpid to work by doing the following: ... > 2. For test purposes, set up a battery monitor. On the GNOME > desktop, I used battstat-applet; I don't use KDE so I can't help you > there. When things are broken, it will give you no useful > information at all. KLaptop started working automatically for me once acpi was enabled. > 3. Add the following code to /etc/rc.local: > ----snip---- > if [ -d /proc/acpi ]; then > for module in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/acpi/* > > do > insmod $module > done > fi > ----snip----- Is this necessary?? these magically appeared in lsmod once acpi was enabled... Still trying to get screen brightness and suspend function keys working using sonypi - if anyone has a good guide to doing this, would appreciate. Pretty exciting stuff though, maybe my laptop will stop giving off that burning smell... or was that my foot? -S
