[ltp] ACPI and TP 770

[Crispin Cowan]

No, the 770 is older than ACPI. At least the one that I had was strictly 
APM.

On the other hand, APM works better, so be happy :)

Crispin

Andrew Gaffney wrote:

> Does the Thinkpad 770 support ACPI? I'm running a 2.6.4 kernel. I've 
> enabled all the ACPI related options in the kernel, but I'm still not 
> getting a /proc/acpi.
>
> I checked my kernel logs from past boots with 'cat /var/log/messages | 
> grep -i acpi':
>
> Apr  4 17:04:04 robin BIOS-e820: 000000000a7d0000 - 000000000a7df000 
> (ACPI data)
> Apr  4 17:04:04 robin BIOS-e820: 000000000a7df000 - 000000000a7e0000 
> (ACPI NVS)
> Apr  4 17:04:04 robin ACPI disabled because your bios is from 98 and 
> too old
> Apr  4 17:04:04 robin You can enable it with acpi=force
> Apr  4 17:04:04 robin ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040220
> Apr  4 17:04:04 robin ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
> Apr  4 17:04:04 robin ACPI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing 
> entries
> Apr  4 17:04:04 robin PCI: Invalid ACPI-PCI IRQ routing table
>
> I've got nothing in my kernel logs since then, even though ACPI is 
> enabled. Any ideas?
>

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