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 -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
