On Sunday 17 October 2004 06:16, Ahmad Khayyat wrote: > 1. Kernel 2.4 boots nicely without additional options (only vga=771). > 2. Other 3 kernels boot nicely with the additional option (acpi=off). > 3. Without acpi=off option, 2.6 kernels boot but keyboard is not > working (ssh connects fine and system responses to it). > > So, effictively I can use kernel 2.6 but without acpi. Now what > exactly am I losing for not having acpi? and is this acceptable in a > laptop?
ACPI is fairly essential for modern laptops as among other things it drives power management. I'm not sure what exactly is causing your keyboard problems. It is very much possible this is not an installation problem, but that there is a bug in the kernel or that the ACPI of your laptop is not properly supported by the 2.6.8 kernel. For example, I found this message: http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/ML/tlinux-users/6200/6245.html I suggest you search ACPI and laptop mailing lists and maybe post your problem there. Starting points could be the debian-laptop mailing list and the ACPI website on sourceforge (http://acpi.sourceforge.net/). Good luck, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
