On Monday 01 July 2002 12:05 am, Gelah wrote:
I thought that the default kernel includes ACPI support. I downloaded the ACPID and installed it, but nothing works. Do I have to patch the kernel? Another question is, can I compile a kernel although I'm running reiserfs? Last time I compiled a kernel under resiserfs, I failed. It was a year ago and there used to be patches for it. And do I need any reiserfs patches? I hope the gurus will give me helpful input here. I know lenz is out, but there's ckm and others.
ACPI support in Linux is still a bit flaky, but improving all the time. I've tried to patch the SuSE kernel without success, tho' I have come across one SuSE user who has apparently managed it. I have a Satellite 5005-S504 and can't get sound because no IRQ is assigned to the card. There is a degree of power management function - battery monitoring, AC adapter, powering off, but no suspend/resume (no surprise there). No change with the next SuSE kernel on the ftp server, as far as I can see, but I guess it'll come eventually. You could try patching a bare 2.4.18 kernel with the latest acpi patch from Sourceforge (though I find the last one - 20020517-2.4.18 - is better)- reiserfs support is available, just include it in your config or modularise it and have the initrd load it (you used to have to edit /etc/rc.config, but that's changed with 8.0, hasn't it? Someone else will put you right there.....) HTH David