On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:32:13PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
So what do I tell my helpless user?
1. Start hacking kernel acpi internals, sending patches to lkml that
have kludges for specific laptop models.
2. Rebuild their kernel with the updated dsdt.
3. Email your laptop vendor to release a new bios for a 5 year old
laptop. I'm pretty certain this will be ignored as it "works in
windows".
1,2, and 3 are pretty daunting for a new user.
I've been carrying a "DSDT in initrd" patch in my FC4 test kernels for
a while now. I've had many reports of people using it successfully.
I put-up a little page for it here:
http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/dsdt/
I would like to see a patch like this upstream. I'm not sure how to
convince Len Brown to let it in.
I don't think putting it in Fedora is necessarily a bad idea, but it
is not a slam dunk either (based on support concerns as pointed-out
elsewhere).
I'll continue to carry it in my test kernels if people are interested.
I don't currently have it in my FC5 kernels, but I can put it there
as well.
John
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John W. Linville
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