On Monday 15 March 2004 07:05 pm, Jack Brooks wrote:
Thanks, I'll take a look at it. However, I don't think that's the problem either: when my laptop is booting up (you know the screen that just says SuSE and shows a progress bar) the button actually works until some point in the boot process (where, I don't know) and then by the time I get my gdm login screen, it no longer works. So, at least at boot, the bios has it set to work.
It is related to acpi though? Is there a way to alter it in YaST?
Yes it is related to ACPI. You may have to recompile your kernel to turn on certain ACPI features IF your laptop will run ACPI properly. The link to linuxlaptops I sent you does relate how that person went through some ACPI hacks to get everything working. Since it is working during the load of linux and then stops at some point when some program/deamon is loaded and running we know your hardware is good. Have you run YOU and updated your system with all available patches and bug fixes? YaST doesn't have ACPI choices at this time. Might in the future. You may have to do several things to get it all working such as: - recompile your kernel with all ACPI functions turned on/enabled. Several aren't by default - learn ACPI hacking to enable all the stuff that the linuxlaptops Compaq Presario 2800T author did one year ago (very detailed instructions) - find a utility that works and does what you want versus the errors you encountered running what was recommended at linuxlaptops - Google for other helpful hints with linux and Compaq Presario 2800T Are you using Gnome's GDM (Gnome Display Manager) versus KDE's KDM? Or is that a reference to gpm the mouse driver? If you are using GDM you may want to try switching to KDM to see if there's a difference... Stan