On Wednesday 18 June 2003 00:17, sjb wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On most modern laptops acpi is NOT OPTIONAL, and you should disable apm in favor of acpi. The SuSE kernel in 8.2 will do this automatically if your bios date is later than January 2001 (I think that is the date, maybe it was 2000). The important bit is it generally does it correctly all by itself.
I recently installed 8.2 on my Sony Vaio - ACPI support was installed but not configured to start at any run level and I had to manually enable the ACPI daemon (YaST, System, Run level editor, enable acpid)
It works fine now, but quite why the installation doesn't automatically start acpid I don't know.
sjb
Yes, I agree its sort of wierd... Also be aware that on some Vaios shutting down acpid may cause a kernel panic, so the best advice is to over-ride the automatic run level selection for acpid and set it to start at B (boot) only, and not select any other run level. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen