From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265771AbTGII3Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 04:29:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265802AbTGII3Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 04:29:25 -0400 Received: from fed1mtao01.cox.net ([68.6.19.244]:40653 "EHLO fed1mtao01.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265771AbTGII3Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 04:29:24 -0400 Message-ID: <3F0BD5D1.2010801@hawton.org> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 01:44:01 -0700 From: Daniel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: ACPI status in 2.5.x/2.6.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have a Compaq Laptop (*shiver*) and present distro versions featuring the 2.4.x kernel seem to panic or lock on bootup on my laptop. I was wondering if ACPI was better supported in the 2.5.x kernel branch/2.6.0 pre-kernel. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. It would lock when attempting to read my partition table on device 'hda' (my hard disk), or would panic when attempting to initalize the USB device. -Daniel