Inspiron 8500

Just wondering if any efforts were being made to address the Inspiron's problems with ACPI, DSDT, etc... there are several sites showing the difficulties faced by i8500 owners and RH9... just hoping Fedora will address some of these before the official release...

Thank You.
Robert Brimhall ([e-mail])

[Michael K. Johnson]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 01:44:35PM -0400, [e-mail] wrote:
> Just wondering if any efforts were being made to address the Inspiron's problems with ACPI, DSDT, etc... there are several sites showing the difficulties faced by i8500 owners and RH9... just hoping Fedora will address some of these before the official release...

Well, ACPI is off by default in test2...

michaelkjohnson

"He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book."
 Linux Application Development                     -- Ben Franklin
 http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad/

Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 01:44:35PM -0400, [e-mail] wrote:
> > Just wondering if any efforts were being made to address the Inspiron's problems with ACPI, DSDT, etc... there are several sites showing the difficulties faced by i8500 owners and RH9... just hoping Fedora will address some of these before the official release...
>
> Well, ACPI is off by default in test2...
>
> michaelkjohnson
>
> "He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book."
> Linux Application Development                     -- Ben Franklin
> http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad/
>
> --
> fedora-list mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Will it be able to be turned on by appending acpi=on to grub? I think 
the AC Kernel sources have addressed many of these problems but will 
Fedora go the extra mile to keep hardware support top-notch as it has 
been for Red Hat in the past?

[Michael K. Johnson]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 01:48:54PM -0500, Robert Brimhall wrote:
> Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> > Well, ACPI is off by default in test2...
>
> Will it be able to be turned on by appending acpi=on to grub? I think 
> the AC Kernel sources have addressed many of these problems but will 
> Fedora go the extra mile to keep hardware support top-notch as it has 
> been for Red Hat in the past?

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/

o The Fedora Core 0.94 kernel includes support for ACPI (Advanced
  Configuration and Power Interface). By default, ACPI support is disabled;
  it can be enabled by using the following boot-time option:
  acpi=on
  When enabled, ACPI is used for device enumeration, but not for sleeping
  or reducing power consumption.

NOTE: The ACPI subsystem results in a kernel too big to fit on a
  diskette; therefore, the kernel placed on boot diskettes does not
  include ACPI support. In addition, because of these size issues,
  emergency boot diskettes will not work. You must use rescue mode from
  the installer instead of an emergency boot diskette.

That should answer your question.  :-)

michaelkjohnson

"He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book."
 Linux Application Development                     -- Ben Franklin
 http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad/