Re: ACPI HOWTO (start) and (failed) installation notes
From: "Jan T. Kim" <kim@inb.uni-luebeck.de>
> Also, is there a particular reason for upgrading to the 2.4.20 kernel?
>
> I have a Toshiba Satellite 5100 notebook with Debian 3.0 installed; the
> 2.4.18 kernel is the latest on my CD set. If necessary, I'd upgrade the
> kernel, but if not, I'd rather add ACPI to the current one.
You can't add ACPI to an existing kernel - you have to patch the source, anyway,
so you might as well patch the source for which the latest ACPI patches exist.
Occasionally the most recent ACPI patches get backported, but generally they're
only available for two releases at most. So that means that if you want ACPI on
a 2.4 kernel, right now, you have to use 2.4.20. If you want to try the
development (2.5) kernels, it's a moving target :-)
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