[ltp] if anny one hawe a R40e

Chris Street linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:05:25 +0100


I don't use Suse - I have Mandrake  on my R40e - here is my experience:

Kernel 2.4.x = ACPI doesn't work

Kernel 2.6.x = battery monitor works OK, but had to disable the thermal module or the thinkpad hangs on boot. 
Haven't really tried other ACPI functions - don't need them.

Chris

On Tuesday 17 Aug 2004 14:19, Tommy Gustafsson wrote:
> Hello! 
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> I hawe some problems whit may R40e 
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> and if some one hawe same Thinkpad running  
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> on SuSe 9.1 Pro and can help me out little 
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> i will be verry happy. 
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> It's so that acpi dont working so i hawe not 
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> battery in the Kde panel and kernel says 
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> that it cant see what bios it is 
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> so acpi need to be:acpi=off in kernel. 
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> or i cant boot it up. 
>