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Scott Newberry

2004-02-08, 2:35 am

Anybody had any luck getting ACPI working on RHEL WS 3.0 x86??? I
downloaded the "unsupported" kernel off RHN, unpacked the source, set it
to compile in ACPI support and remove APM support. The machine boots,
but hangs when kudzu runs. If I skip kudzu, I get the gdm login screen,
but when I log into GNOME, I get a message that my session lasted let
than 10 seconds and I'm dumped out. When I log into KDE, it starts, but
it seems that nothing else will run. I click on Mozilla, for instance,
and the "Starting Mozilla" comes up with and hourglass icon. This stays
for about 30 seconds, then just disappears.

Any thoughts?

Scott

Alexander Dalloz

2004-02-08, 3:34 am

On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 10:55:57 -0500 Scott Newberry wrote:

> Anybody had any luck getting ACPI working on RHEL WS 3.0 x86??? I
> downloaded the "unsupported" kernel off RHN, unpacked the source, set it
> to compile in ACPI support and remove APM support. The machine boots,
> but hangs when kudzu runs. If I skip kudzu, I get the gdm login screen,
> but when I log into GNOME, I get a message that my session lasted let
> than 10 seconds and I'm dumped out. When I log into KDE, it starts, but
> it seems that nothing else will run. I click on Mozilla, for instance,
> and the "Starting Mozilla" comes up with and hourglass icon. This stays
> for about 30 seconds, then just disappears.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Scott


Why not using the RHEL3 kernel and pass him as boot parameter "acpi=on
apm=off" in grub.conf?

Alexander


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Scott Newberry

2004-02-08, 11:34 am


> Why not using the RHEL3 kernel and pass him as boot parameter "acpi=on
> apm=off" in grub.conf?
>
> Alexander
>
>


The RHEL3 kernel for x86 is compiled without acpi support, so passing
the parameter in grub.conf has no effect...

Alexander Dalloz

2004-02-09, 5:35 am

On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 19:37:37 -0500 Scott Newberry wrote:

>
>
> The RHEL3 kernel for x86 is compiled without acpi support, so passing
> the parameter in grub.conf has no effect...


Oh, ok, this is a new information for me. Do you know the reason for this
issue?

Alexander


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Scott Newberry

2004-02-09, 9:35 am


>
>
> Oh, ok, this is a new information for me. Do you know the reason for this
> issue?
>
> Alexander
>


Just that Red Hat doesn't consider ACPI for x86 ready for "prime time",
so it is left out as unsupported on the RHEL product right now. I
suppose we probably won't see a supported ACPI implementation for RHEL
until RHEL4... I can do without it, but it would be nice to have on the
laptop...

Scott

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