On Monday 20 December 2004 04:24, Ridge Chittenden wrote: > Hello all, > > The DSDT on my Dell Inspiron 300m seems buggy--KDE > tells me I "appear to have a partial ACPI > installantion," and I get a bunch of ACPI errors on > bootup. > > I'd like to try to edit the DSDT (or use one from > acpi.sourceforge.net). > > But there are a bunch of different methods listed at > the ACPI project: A kernel patch that statically links > the custom DSDT in, another patch that allows the > kernel to load a custom DSDT in an initrd. (N.B.: > These patches appear to be against a vanilla > kernel...) > > So what's The Debian Way to do it? What do other folks > do? > I asked a very similar question a couple of weeks ago, and got the answer that there was no Debian way, and that the ACPI group preferred way is to statically link the customer DSDT.
I have to say that I think this is the wrong choice, as the initrd choice gives the option of using a stock kernel, which the link in choice does not. Until recently building ones own kernel for a laptop was almost required in order to get it to work properly, and actually one of the reasons for this was the ACPI support which seemed to take a while to get into the kernel. But recently I have set up two laptops with Debian, and both of them are running stock kernels. Yes on both of them I have had to add in some modules (the madwifi driver for Atheros wireless support), but that is done without modifying the base kernel. David > Thanks, > > R. > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
