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[Travis Fraser]

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 23:36, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 12/12/03 Travis Fraser did say:
> 
> > Did you pass the option acpi=on to the kernel at boot? If you did, do
> > you have a /proc/acpi directory?
> 
>     No. I just tried apm=off acpi=on, and the modules load. I have a
> /proc/acpi directory. 
>     However, I had to check from another window manager, as Gnome
> locks-up every single time I try to login with acpi enabled!
> 
>     Anyone know of this issue?
> 
Does the computer lockup totally when trying to use GNOME? Try switching
to another vt and see if the battstat applet is running. I had to patch
my applet to make it work with ACPI, otherwise GNOME was dog-slow with
the battstat applet running.

Travis Fraser