From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262369AbTD3TSN (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:18:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262371AbTD3TSM (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:18:12 -0400 Received: from bdsl.66.13.29.10.gte.net ([66.13.29.10]:18872 "EHLO bluesong.NET") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262369AbTD3TSL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:18:11 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: "Jack F. Vogel" Reply-To: jfv@bluesong.net To: "Wojciech Sobczak" , "Martin J. Bligh" , Subject: Re: IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:36:24 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 References: <01d601c30f17$f3ffadf0$b312840a@nbsobczak> <3270000.1051712524@[10.10.2.4]> <021501c30f27$e02be4a0$b312840a@nbsobczak> In-Reply-To: <021501c30f27$e02be4a0$b312840a@nbsobczak> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200304301136.24728.jfv@bluesong.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 30 April 2003 07:50 am, Wojciech Sobczak wrote: > Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > SuSE works well, at least the SLES edition does. > > but shoudn't it be platform independent? this is only kernel or meaby i > need new gcc... or meaby something else?.... I has nothing to do with gcc, Alan mentioned the magic (or cursed is probably the better choice :) word, ACPI. The kernel in SLES 8 has the x440 blacklisted so ACPI gets turned off automagically :) As John mentioned, you can use a generic kernel provided its recent enough AND you configure it properly for the box. Cheers, -- Jack F. Vogel IBM Linux Technology Center jfv@us.ibm.com (work) || jfv@bluesong.net (home)