[KLUG Members] I messed up my Kernel install

[Richard Harding]

Peter Buxton wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:35:55PM -0500, Richard Harding was only escaped
>   alone to tell thee:
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>>Any ideas as to how I can find out why acpi is causing me grief and how 
>>to correct it?
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>Because ACPI is large, complex and new.
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>http://acpi.sourceforge.net/
>http://www.linuxforum.com/linux-acpi.php
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Actually I don't think it is acpi. If I take out the acpi=off option in 
the grub Failsafe mode I still get the machine to boot fine. I think it 
might be some other option in the menu.lst. Once I get a chance to get 
back on the machine I plane on looking up each of those options.

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>>I never had the trackpoint or touchpad working. I use a external USB
>>wireless mouse.
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>/dev/input/mice ?
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Yep, /dev/input/mice got the touchpad going great.