[KLUG Members] 2.4.22 On The Verge

[Bruce Smith]

> > >>>>ACPI! ACPI! ACPI!  Laptop Linux users rejoice!
> > >>>Are you going to try it?  If so, PLEASE let me know how it works!
> > >>I intend to try it, ACPI would fix several problems I have.
> > >Cool.  Please let me know.  There is a debate on the DL-develop mailing
> > >list, if it's stable enough to include ACPI support in our kernel.
> > Will do.  I'll probably try in on Sunday, tearing the roof off my porch tomorrow
> > and have bad movie night tonight.  I'd really just like power off / reboot to
> > work, which doesn't on my laptop without ACPI enabled.
> 
> I tried it, it sucks.  I can't get a working kernel out of 2.4.22 for
> anything.  Either basic modules don't build (no lvm-mod) or dies with
> bizarre errors like -

Did you start with a "make mrproper"?  In the past I found a mrproper 
to be required, even when starting with a fresh source code un-tar.

Without a mrproper (starting with xconfig/menuconfig, dep, ...), 
I've had some really weird compile aborts.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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