Laptops -acpi and powermanagement

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