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ACPI Kernal Support
Name: Christopher McGill Date: February 17, 2004 at 11:49:17 Pacific OS: N/A CPU/Ram: N/A
Comment:
Hi,
I am running serveal systems. I have ran GNU/Linux (Mandrake among others) on my laptop (Compaq 2100), however, the thing is on fire, it has no APM support in BIOS, and I try to setup ACPI support in kernal and recopile I am having problems. I am very interested in learning about linux, however it is had to when you are affaird that your £1000 laptop will overheat and die. Can you some suggest a distro with support standard or can someone please give me step-by-step instructions on how I should set it up. Please Thanks
Name: dieymir Date: February 17, 2004 at 17:06:32 Pacific
Reply:
Here is an ACPI Howto: http://sylvestre.ledru.info/howto/howto_acpi.php
This page has info about installing Linux on your laptop: http://lisonbee.freeshell.org/linux/laptop/presario_2100.html
Hope this helps.
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Response Number 2
Name: anonproxy Date: February 17, 2004 at 20:11:40 Pacific
Reply:
"it has no APM support in BIOS"
If it doesn't have ACPI support either (hard to believe), then neither kernel modules will assist you. The modules are just interfaces to the BIOS services.
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Response Number 3
Name: ... Date: February 18, 2004 at 01:30:57 Pacific
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What problems are you having? I think many of the distros will be like that (you'll have to recompile the kernel, etc. I think RH9 (well, the next version is fedora) loads up everything (which is why it's slow).
recompiling the kernel is easy though...what steps are you performing?
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