Laptop Sony Vaio R505TS - test2 - ACPI

[Robert L Cochran]

pass this in your kernel parameters:

acpi=on

as in

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2061.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on

in /boot/grub/grub.conf...read the release notes also.

Bob

Fedora-Test-List wrote:
> All:
> 
> I've done a fresh install of Fedora test2 on my Sony Vaio R505TS (ACPI
> based).
> 
> ACPI doesn't seem to work, the Gnome battery applet gives me no love, and
> there aren't the directories in /proc/acpi that there are when I run a
> ACPI custom patched kernel.
> 
> I've got the following boot params set:
> nogui acpi=on pci=biosirq
> 
> # ps -ef | grep acpi
> root      3137     1  0 21:47 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/acpid
> root      3822  3772  0 22:09 pts/0    00:00:00 grep acpi
> 
> # ls -la /proc/acpi/
> total 0
> dr-xr-xr-x    6 root     root            0 Oct  1 21:47 .
> dr-xr-xr-x   98 root     root            0 Oct  1 17:46 ..
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct  1 22:10 alarm
> dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Oct  1 22:10 asus
> dr-xr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Oct  1 22:10 button
> -r--------    1 root     root            0 Oct  1 22:10 dsdt
> dr-xr-xr-x    3 root     root            0 Oct  1 22:10 embedded_controller
> -r--------    1 root     root            0 Oct  1 21:47 event
> -r--------    1 root     root            0 Oct  1 22:10 fadt
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct  1 22:10 info
> dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Oct  1 22:10 power_resource
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct  1 22:10 sleep
> 
> Any direction or things to try would be most appreciated, thanks.
> 
> Please cc' me on your reply as I'm in digest mode.
> 
> Louis
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