Question concerning ACPI on 2.4.20

[Nathan Fain]

I am having trouble with ACPI on a fresh 2.4.20 kernel.  I've applied 
the latest patch for 2.4.20 from the acpi project at sourceforge ( 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi/ ) and while it does somewhat work 
(shows power usage, controls fan), I'm having two problems that make it 
impossible to use (detailed in a second).  I've searched through the 
archives a bit.  I've tried the kernel archives.  I'm curious if anyone 
has any advice (Such as, "search the archives harder you bastard", or 
"go bug the kernel lists").

Problems:
1) the system load averages (uptime) of my machine jumps to a consistent 
4.0 and the system crawls
2) Firewire no longer works.  When I plug in the card the machine freezes.

A generic 2.4.20 kernel with acpi turned off works fine.

Other details:
Compaq Evo 610c laptop with SuSE8.1
(if you can, reply to all in this message, thanks)

Nathan

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