Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266057AbTGIQdV (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:33:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266063AbTGIQdV (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:33:21 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([208.129.208.51]:20099 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266057AbTGIQdU (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:33:20 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 09:40:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@bigblue.dev.mcafeelabs.com To: Daniel cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: ACPI status in 2.5.x/2.6.0 In-Reply-To: <3F0BD5D1.2010801@hawton.org> Message-ID: References: <3F0BD5D1.2010801@hawton.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 972 Lines: 26 On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Daniel wrote: > I have a Compaq Laptop (*shiver*) and present distro versions featuring > the 2.4.x kernel seem to panic or lock on bootup on my laptop. I was > wondering if ACPI was better supported in the 2.5.x kernel branch/2.6.0 > pre-kernel. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > It would lock when attempting to read my partition table on device 'hda' > (my hard disk), or would panic when attempting to initalize the USB device. If it uses a SiS650 chipset you can try this : http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/misc.html#SiSRt Even if I am not much confident about success in your case. Also, I believe Alan was working of fixing ACPI for SiS. You might want to check. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/