Where to go with FC3 and ACPI?
Ryan D'Baisse
ryan.dbaisse at gmail.com
Thu Dec 23 13:32:25 UTC 2004
Okay, I am thoroughly confused. I have been reading everything I can
about FC3, ACPI, and kernels for days now. I do not know how to
proceed.
I am running FC2 with kernel 2.6.5-1.358 and have not had any
problems. I want FC3 and the latest kernel, however when I upgrade my
kernel, even on FC2, I can no longer boot. It appears to be caused by
ACPI. And, what's worse is that, if I disable ACPI at boot, then I
cannot get my NIC working at all (using a Linksys WPC54G with
Linuxant's DriverLoader). Worse again, everything that I find
regarding ACPI simply says that there are "known problems" with
various items (such as PCMCIA NICs, etc.) but nothing mentions a fix
or exactly what the problem is.
Everything I have read has pointed out that there are differences
between the version of the kernel I have the latest and greatest
kernel. Unfortunately, I cannot find anyone, or anything, that can
tell me specifically what the differences are (i.e., they enabled ACPI
and removed APM, etc.). I have read the changelogs at kernel.org but,
truthfully, I do not understand enough about the kernel to benefit
from them.
I guess, at this point, I'm looking for some guru to tell me where to
go next. I've just read so information that I am basically confusing
myself.
Now, the questions...
Should I manually recompile my kernel, with something like 2.6.9, and
disable, or enable, certain options (like ACPI and APM)? If so, is
there any place to get a list of how things should be setup? I have
read a ton of pages explaining HOW to compile the kernel, but nothing
details the settings.
And, as far as ACPI vs APM, was ACPI not even in 2.6.5-1.358? From
what I've read, APM and ACPI don't exactly do the same thing, so I
don't see how I could essentially "go back" to APM. And, even if I
do, isn't APM going bye bye?
Like I said, I'm just confused. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanx,
Ryan
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