Disable ACPI on modern kernel?
Recently I was forced to upgrade my kernel. I am now running 2.6.16 with
an imported configuration from 2.6.8. My hardware is an IBM T23 Laptop,
which does not function well with ACPI. I am running with ACPI in the
kernel, but disabled at boot (--acpi=off) and APM as a module. This is
identical to the arrangement I was running in 2.6.8. Unfortunately, now
ACPI loads anyway and 'modprobe apm' returns "No such device." On boot,
dmesg fills with ACPI errors but boots normally.
I thought that --acpi=off would disable ACPI, and on 2.6.8, it did.
However, now it doesn't. Do I have to recompile my kernel AGAIN? How
else can I prevent ACPI from seizing my power management? Shutting down
the laptop every day is a serious drag.
It took me about 16 hours to solve this problem for 2.6.8-- in fact, this
exact problem is the reason I elected to compile the kernel myself,
because it was SOLVED-- and I'm really upset that I have to do it again.
Thanks for any suggestions.
-Brandon
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