On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 12:34 -0400, Charlie McVeigh wrote: > Quick question for the board - Does FC5 support or have an easy > mechanism for loading a customized DSDT at boot time? I need to load a > customized DSDT that will allow the battery monitor and CPU freq apps to > work on an Acer 5002WLMi laptop. > > With FC4 I able to get a patched kernel and instructions from > http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/dsdt/ and have the battery and > cpu freq apps work correctly. However, I don't see any FC5 kernels at > that site - so I was wondering if this functionality is built into the > stock FC5 kernel. When I still had FC4 on my Acer Ferrari 4005 I took the kernel srpm, added the patches from http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml rebuild the kernel and installed it. Then created a fixed DSDT with the help of http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122145 Surprisingly FC5 does understand my battery so I don't need to mess with the DSDT anymore but the above should also work for an FC5 kernel. Not really an easy way though... Regards, Patrick
