Sarge install -- still no ACPI

[Mike Oliver <mike_lists@verizon.net>]

Well, I'm a lot happier now -- finally got a workable
Linux installation on this Compaq Presario 2199US, and
I'm using it now rather than rebooting into Windows
to do mail.

But I still can't get ACPI working -- I have to
pass "acpi=off" to the kernel (2.6.3-1.386) or
the system hangs at boot.  Not really a Good Thing
not to have ACPI on a laptop.  So can anyone
help?  The messages look something like this
(copied by hand; I think the hang occurs before
any rw mounting, so I can't take it from
/var/log/messages).

  Using local APIC timer interrupts
  Calibrating APIC timer
  ..... CPU clock speed is 2119.0988 MHz
  ..... host bus clock speed is 264.0988 MHz
  NET: Registered protocol family 16
  EISA bus registered
  PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd876, last bus=2
  PCI: Using configuration type 1
  mtrr: v20 (20020519)
  ACPI: Sybsystem revision 20040116
  Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
  ACPI: IRQ9SCI: Level Trigger.

... and at that point there's nothing to do but
power-cycle the machine.