acpi confusion

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun Aug 10 00:45:37 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 20:37, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 20:26, seth vidal wrote:
> > > > so I read that site. very informative and useful. then I look at my
> > > > system, booted without acpi=off in the kernel boot line, and I have none
> > > > of the /proc entries of which they speak. Does that make sense?
> > > 
> > > Well, if you have ACPI off, I wouldn't imagine the /proc entries would
> > > be there.
> > 
> > I said I did NOT have acpi=off which, I assume, means I have it on.
> > I checked /proc/cmdline and grub - I definitely removed acpi=off
> 
> whoops.  sorry.  ^^;  in that case, you may not have it enabled int he
> kernel config.  that seems most likely.
> 

I'm not using custom kernels. I'm using the stock kernel that came in
the rhl beta severn. 2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl - I thought it was
enabled in that kernel.

> I thought you wanted the /proc entries to disable ACPI.  sorry, further
> misunderstanding.  when you enable ACPI in the kernel config, just only
> enable the power management, which should let the laptop run properly,
> without acpi messing up the sound card.

I'll look into it. thanks.
-sv






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