On Sunday 08 February 2004 13:13, clarkt@cnsp.com wrote:

I have been working with Redhat and Fedora and have gotten use to having powermanagment working. Now with SuSE 9.0 I have none. How does one get acpi and powermanagement working?

I have tested the 2.4.25-pre8 kernel from kernel.org and acpi works. But I cannot find where to get the patches that SuSE adds to the kernel (alsa, etc). Where are these patches located?

Clark

With 9.0 acpi just works. Well, ok, there are a few machines where it improperly detects that acpi is not available, but on any recient machine it just automatically works. SuSE has applied all the patches needed to get acpi working since 8.1 I believe. Releases prior to 9.0 required a boot parm of pci=acpi but this is said to be no longer necessary. It is NOT necessary to recompile a kernel to get this to work in SuSE. It has been reported that acpid is not always started by default. You need to go into Yast run-level editor and set acpid to start automatically. By the way, as far as I know acpi does NOT work without patches in Redhat and never has, so you might be confused with apm which does work. Apm is mutually exclusive with acpi. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen