Okay - Gripe time
Dan Goodes
fedora-list at planetmirror.com
Mon Oct 20 23:34:14 UTC 2003
Thanks for clarifying, Michael. The big thing for me is that it'll be good
to not have to patch and recompile a kernel in order to get the ACPI stuff
working (like dimming the backlight when i pull the AC power out,
automatically switching between the PS/2 port and the touchpad when i pull
out/insert the mouse, adjust the brightness using the Fn keys, and of
course, control the fan speed and use the battery-life monitor in gnome).
the Compaq i'm using doesn't have APM support - they've removed it
completely (apparently) and are just using ACPI.
the one thing i am worried about is that when i patch/compile the kernel
(the 2.4.20-20.9 kernel, from shrike), i lose my USB support, as well as
start experiencing eratic behaviour when switching between PS/2 and
touchpad pointer. I've submitted a bugzilla against shrike/acpi. I'm
hopefull that whatever the problem is, it's either caused by me (i.e. some
misconfiguration of my kernel or something) or it's resolved in the 2.4.22
fedora core release.
-Dan
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:09:07PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:30:57PM +1000, Dan Goodes wrote:
> > > I thought - great, new fedora release, let's look at the release notes to
> > > see what's in store.
> > >
> > > WHOA!!! perfect!!! built-in ACPI support!!! no more rebuilding custom
> > > kernels to handle power management and so on... right? WRONG!!!
> > >
> > > *sigh* it's only going to be used for device enumeration, not power
> > > management and so on.
> >
> > WRONG!!! 8-)
> > The various components of ACPI are modular. If you boot with acpi=on,
> > the startup scripts should auto-load them.
>
> I think Dan's quoting me. Our *purpose* is only for device
> enumeration and initialization; my point was that we weren't
> going to be adding swsusp patches (for instance) or in general
> trying to deal with sleeping.
>
> michaelkjohnson
>
> "He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book."
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