[ltp] 2.6 kernel acpi howtos

[Lance A. Brown]

Brad Langhorst wrote:
> acpi doesn't work properly yet...

Yeah.  I got that impresson. :-)

> however to get the partial features is pretty easy - just use 2.6.6.

I was planning on upgrading.

> S3 sort of works (sucks power)

*nod*  I noticed that I don't seem to have as much battery life 
running FC2 off-power than I did with FC1.  I'm wondering if the ACPI 
problems are at the root of that.

> the madwifi card freaks out when the laptop scales back the cpu.

Really?  That will suck if true...

> to use apm i bet you just have to pass acpi=off at the kernel prompt and
> install apmd.

Going to try this as well.  If I can get back to a nice suspend-to-ram 
situation that worked as well as it did with FC1 / kernel 2.4 than 
I'll be happy.

--[Lance]