[ltp] Re: I need an "ACPI for Dummies" reference

[Borislav Deianov]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:25:04 +0000 (UTC) C Sink <digitalpengwin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all. I know ACPI gets discussed a lot and apologies if I'm being
> repetative but I'm very much in need of a "gentle introduction" to
> ACPI and APM. I've got Gentoo (kernel 2.4.26) running on my T30 but
> would really like to get suspend/hibernate and power throttling
> working.  I've tried installing the ibm-acpi package but get errors on
> compilation: "no rule to make target 'modules'".

I haven't tried porting ibm-acpi to 2.4 kernels, currently it's 2.6
only. Patches are welcome :-). If you decide to try a 2.6 kernel, the
current one is 2.6.9 but I've had better results with 2.6.7 + ACPI
20040715 patch.

Here is a link with some good ACPI howtos:

http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/howto.html

Boris