Re: ACPI on Compaq Presario 1400
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On Saturday 10 May 2003 03:08 am, Jeremy Petzold wrote:
> On Saturday 10 May 2003 10:32 am, flubie wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anybody here succeed in installing ACPI on Compaq Presario 1400?
> > I recompiled 2.4.20 kernel with ACPI included (not as a module), and it
> > seems that ACPI is recognized, but Laptop Battery in KDE gives me the
> > following message:
> >
> > Your computer seems to have a partial ACPI installation. ACPI was
> > probably enabled, but some of the sub-options were not - you need to
> > enable at least 'AC Adaptor' and 'Control Method Battery' and then
> > rebuild your kernel.
> >
> > I'm sure that I have enabled those adaptor and control method.
>
> in the kernel config (I use xconfig) when you go into the ACPI menu there
> is the first option to turn on ACPI, then there is another option to "only
> use cpu" sometiung or other, DO NOT select that one. then continue on and
> select all acpi features below eccept the toshiba laptop support and the
> debug message stuff.
>
> also, here is a link that you might find helpfull:
>
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/
>
> download the vanilla 2.4.20 kernel from kernel.org and apply this guys meta
> patch. it will vastly improove your system responce. make sure you enable
> the low latency and preemption.
> have fun,
> Jeremy
Jeremy,
The link you added is very exciting. I have a Gateway solo1200
w/celery850MHz cpu. I am going to try the patch and see if I kill the box!
:) Would you say that this howto is okay for newbies to follow if they don't
already know how to patch kernel source?
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/patching_the_kernel.html
It was suggested that I build my nic driver into the kernel instead of
loading it as a module, so I needed to recompile anyway. If this cures my
wierd fast-download/slow-upload problem, I will report it back to the list.
tia, wishing you well.
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