2.4.21... Dead in the water...

[Net Llama!]

Ahhh...acpi has been known to be mostly broken in the vanilla 2.4.x 
kernels.  From what i've read, in order to get useful acpi support, you 
either need to go to 2.5.x or apply the acpi patch from acpi.sf.net.

On 06/14/03 09:43, Jerry McBride wrote:

> I'm using vanilla kernel source...
> 
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:09:44 -0700 Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 06/14/03 09:00, Jerry McBride wrote:
>> 
>> > Well... with all the talk about 2.4.21 on the net and this mail list... I
>> > grabbed a copy and started fooling around. 
>> > Other odd thing with 2.4.21, acpi or apm both fail to modprobe horribly...
>> > I'm not able to cleanly shutdown-h without either power manager loaded.
>> > Both compile cleanly... either as a dedicated service or with both services
>> > in one kernel. Without a PM loaded... it's not good to turn off the
>> > computyer when I'm done.
>> 
>> are you using the acpi that comes with 2.4.21, or the patch from 
>> acpi.sf.net?
>> 
>> > I'd be willing to bet that 2.4.22 will be out in less time than 2.4.21
>> > took... Any takers?
>> 
>> hard to say at this point, since i can't get it to build yet with XFS. 
>> i'm taking a stab right now on my remaining ext3 box.

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