Re: An hopefully simple question about acpi and debian kernel

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr>]

Does anyone know how to manage the two patches in oder to get a new 
(working) one?

(Debian + ACPI -[?]-> new patch)

Thanks,
Jerome

Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Andrew McMillan wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 18:52, Riccardo Gusso wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > do the acpi patches from sourceforge work with kernel-source packages
> > > from debian, or is it necessary to use kernel sources from kernel.org?
> >
> >
> >
> > The kernel sources from Debian should be vanilla kernel.org sources, so
> > the acpi patches should apply straight up.
>
>
> In fact the kernel source 2.4.20 from Debian was patched:
> unfortunately the corresponding ACPI patch does not patch it.
>
> > Also, you may want to install the "kernel-package" package and use the
> > make-kpkg command to build a Debian package of the kernel for easier
> > installation and management.
> >
> > Regards,
> >                     Andrew.
>
>
> I hope that helps,
> Jerome