Okay - Gripe time

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Oct 14 12:09:07 UTC 2003


On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:30:57PM +1000, Dan Goodes wrote:
 > I thought - great, new fedora release, let's look at the release notes to 
 > see what's in store.
 > 
 > WHOA!!! perfect!!! built-in ACPI support!!! no more rebuilding custom 
 > kernels to handle power management and so on... right? WRONG!!!
 > 
 > *sigh* it's only going to be used for device enumeration, not power 
 > management and so on.

WRONG!!! 8-)
The various components of ACPI are modular. If you boot with acpi=on,
the startup scripts should auto-load them.

 > Oh and one more thing - someone plese wave a wand and get 2D/3D
 > accelerated support for the Radeon Mobility U1 (IGP 320M) into the kernel
 > and auto-detecting at install :-) Now *that* would be sweet.

AGP side of it should be there, dunno about X.
I'll take a peek this week sometime.

		Dave

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