[wellylug] Gnome Stuffed

[Jethro Carr]

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 21:40, Rob Stockley wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 21:05, Rob Stockley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 20:51, Jethro Carr wrote:
> > > I'm using redhat 9, with a customized version of the 2.4.20-8 kernel.
> > > (The same as the default one , but I added acpi & ntfs support) 
> > 
> > IIRC acpi support is broken and unpredictable under RH9. Give me a
> > moment to track down where I read that.
> 
> Couldn't find the exact place but google "acpi RH9" came up with a
> number of pages referring to how ACPI being disabled in RH9. The
> engineers have probably done it for a reason. Buggy implementations of
> APM and ACPI conflicting with each other.
> 
> http://www.bardicgrove.org/~tykeal/distributables/
> 
> has patches and working 2.4.20-9 kernels for RH9 with acpi support
> fixed. I haven't tried them but you could compare the patches with the
> modifications you made and look for ideas. There's a src rpm there also
> so you could add ntfs if it's not already there.
> 

Yeah, the acpi support in the kernel that came with redhat didn't work,
so I downloaded the patch for it. I don't think this is the problem,
because my old gateway script works fine.

--- Jethro

dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz

homepages.paradise.net.nz/jethroc/

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