Sorry for having posted in private, I should have done a "reply all"... I think we should come back into the list so that it may help other people and other people may help... ;-) >> > I've been installing gentoo on a HP Compaq tc4200 tablet PC and things >> > seem to work fine except ACPI which (through kacpid) eats up my >> > processor constantly by 100%. This is definitely a problem since >> > passing noacpi to the kernel (although it solves the kacpid cpu >> > hunger) removes the possibility of havin battery, fan, cpu temp, etc. >> > >> > Any ideas on how to solve something like this? >> >> >> Have you tried to fix DSDT bugs ? > > > 10 min. ago didn't know what that was. Now I think you're referring to > this: > http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php > > I've not yet clearly understood what this is but my guess is that I > can work around it if needed. However, people having the same PC and > after installing linux say the ACPI works ok. Can they have a diff > BIOS version (supposing that the DSDT problem is on the BIOS)? If I well understood, this is a (often bugged due to a M$ compiler...) table the OS uses to know how to deal with ACPI. I guess that newer BIOS versions than yours might have a corrected ACPI table, but I'm afraid I can't help you further... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
