Re: ACPI

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:10:45PM -0500, Lei Kong wrote:
> >
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have Debian testing with kernel 2.6.12-1-386 on an IBM Thinkpad. For
> >some reason, ACPI is not enabled in the kernel by default. This is
> >unfortunate, because I cannot monitor the battery without ACPI.
> >
> >How exactly do I go about configuring the kernel to enable ACPI? I am

If you need to recompile the kernel, use debian package 'kernel-package'
to manage your work. For a config file, start with the config file of
a kernel that you know and like, and edit it to include the things you
want, e.g. ACPI. The man page for kernel-package is a must read.

It may not be necessary to compile a new kernel. Look to see if ACPI
support is compileable as module.


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Paul E Condon           
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