King Beowulf wrote:
> On Fri, 09 May 2008 21:20:39 +0100, Martin Hughes wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I am currently running Slackware 11.0 on an Acer Travelmate 292lmi,
>> which contains an ATI Radeon 9700 graphics card. The kernel is the
>> standard 2.4 kernel which comes with Slackware 11.0 and I use the KDE
>> windowing system.
>>
>> The problem I have is that the system hangs after a short time, when I
>> use the bareacpi.i kernel. The hang does not occur if I use bare.i but
>> then the battery indicator does not work properly.
>>
>> Has anybody out there encountered this and, if so, how did was the
>> problem solved?
>>
>> Regards
>> Martin Hughes
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>
> You may want to give http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html
> a try. Also, There are numerous documented issues with acpi and laptops as
> well as kernel patches (go google). I still have a few older laptops on 11.0 (soon to go 12.1)
> and kernel 2.4 and needed to load the apm module as well as:
>
> append = "acpi=off apm=on"
>
> in lilo to keep the fan on (overheating). On one laptop, the network hardware wasn't detected
> correctly with acpi active. The newer kernels are suppoed to be better so you should try that.
> Besides, 12.1 has a lot of improvements.
>

Many thanks for your help and or the kernel command line tip. I resorted
to using bare.i and loading apm from rc.modules. the battery indicator
does not work but I get plenty of warning anyway before the battery is
about to die on me.

I still use kernel 2.4.x because some won't compile when used with
kernel 2.6.x.

Regards and Thanks
Martin Hughes
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