[ltp] How to turn your T42p into a brick with ACPI...

[David A. Desrosiers]

> anyway... i don't have a dock so i don't know about that - but i 
> have read some reports of functionality in the archives.  ibm-acpi 
> also has a dock piece that i suspect will be handy for you...

	I'm not trying ibm-acpi until acpi itself works 100%, and 
right now, I've got a sour taste in my mouth because of acpi 
temporarily turning the laptop into a $3k piece of glass and plastic. 

	If I didn't disassemble it and pull that backup battery, it 
would have been going back to IBM for a replacement, and I would have 
been out of my work machine for 3 more weeks.

	So what are the steps to get acpi working, _without_ turning 
the laptop into a dead machine? Compiling in acpi and running some of 
the test script clearly isn't all that is required. There must be some 
other preparation and workarounds that I have to script into events to 
make sure it doesn't just kill the box.


David A. Desrosiers
desrod@gnu-designs.com
http://gnu-designs.com