On Wednesday 23 October 2002 00.08, Jim Carter wrote:
For laptops, ACPI isn't ready for prime time, lacking support for "suspend". I just upgraded an Inspiron 4100 and one of the first things I did was to rebuild the kernel, adding support for APM and removing ACPI.
There's no need to recompile the kernel. APM is included in the default kernel. Just add "acpi=off apm=on" to the kernel parameters.
Remember to use yast2 - system - runlevel editor to turn on apmd and turn off acpid. I have a ATI Radeon graphics chip, and the XFree86 4.0 driver has no problems with suspend-resume.
If I remember right, the SuSE hacked kernel sources do not include the official .config file;
What's an official .config file? The SuSE way is to run "make cloneconfig" in the root of the source tree. That will generate a config file that matches the running kernel from the configuration data in /proc/config.gz Anders