ACPI on laptop not working after passing acpi=on to kernel

[Travis Fraser]

Try also adding apm=off to your grub.conf. Then grep dmesg for acpi to
see if it is being disabled for some reason.

Travis Fraser
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 12:56, Nicholas Allen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed Fedora Core 1 on my laptop but the ACPI is not working. I 
> have edited the grub.conf to pass acpi=on as a boot option. However, there is 
> no /proc/acpi directory. The documentation does not say I need to do anything 
> else. Does anyone have any ideas what I need to do?
> 
> When I look in /proc I notice I still have /proc/apm. Do I need to disable apm 
> somehow. I've stopped apmd from running but that didn't help.
> 
> I know the laptop has ACPI because it is new and I had a custom kernel 
> compiled when I used RedHat 9 and managed to get it working. I could go 
> through all that hassle again with Fedora but I was under the impression this 
> isn't needed as ACPI is supported in Fedora.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Nicholas Allen
> 
> 
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