[KLUG Members] 2.4.22 On The Verge

[Adam Williams]

> > > >>>>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.

Ok, I'll try that.  Currently 2.6.0-test4 seems to be merrily
compiling.  One thing for 2.6.x - the configuration mechanism is *MUCH*
nicer, just one big expanding tree; verses flouncing about in the 2.4.x
menus.