[linux-help] APM and ACPI

[John Heffington <john1982@xxxxxxx>]

Hi y'all, installed the new SuSE 8.1 on Saturday. Great distro! Comes wit=
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more stuff than RH 8.0 personal edition. Anywho, I get it installed on my=
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Gateway Solo 1400 Notebook and noticed something different right off the =
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The power fan is actually off!! I thought this was a good thing consideri=
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that WinXP cycled the fan only when the Mobo got too hot.  Well,=20
unfortunaetly SuSE doesn't have APM or ACPI support built into the kernal=
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1> How do I recompile the kernal
2> The log messages show that ACPI overrides the APM and it acts like it =
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there. Infact, the battery icon says that there is a partial ACPI install=
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and that I need to enable the sub-options. The only thing I can do is SET=
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to APM file and it allows the standy and suspend options to appear. Well =
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I am wanting is a way for the fan to work properly. I found an ACPI folde=
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under /proc and tried to alter the PFAN file to where it says on, but Kat=
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editor says I do not have permission even tho I am root. So I am between =
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rock and a hard spot. If anyone has any brilliant ideas as to how to fix=20
this, please reply!!!! I sure would hate to lose my Notebook over=20
overheating!!! Thanks.=20
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