2.4.21... Dead in the water...

[Jerry McBride]

Problem.... There's no acpi patch for 2.4.21 on sourceforge

On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:04:27 -0700 Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> 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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