On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 07:31, StoneBeat wrote: > possibly you have a laptop that use ACPI instead of APM, check it and if you > have ACPI you must recompile your kernel enabling ACPI > Actually, all you need to do is add acpi=on to your grub.conf. If that does not fix the problem the ACPI may be broken on your laptop. It is possible to work around these problems. http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ should get you started. Have your googled for your laptop and Linux? You might find that someone else has already gone through the trouble of figuring out how to set everything up. I found a lot of helpful information when I was first setting up my HP laptop.