Journal richieb's Journal: ACPI and my new laptop 1
As an early Xmas gift I got a new laptop. My old (two years old!) Thinkpad is broken. It only runs for about 20 minutes and it shuts down. Then it has to rest. IBM is willing to fix it, but for a lot of money - so I gave up on them.
Instead I got a new Fujitsu S-Lifebook. This is a really nice laptop. Red Hat 8.0 installed with no problems (it's dual boot with Windows XP and RH). I need to do a nice web page describing what I've done and tested so far - there are no S-Lifebook pages on Linux on Laptops for this model.
Now these newest laptops use ACPI power management, instead of the older APM. To get ACPI working I had to patch the kernel (I got 2.4.20, patched and recompiled it). Now I have most of the ACPI devices, except for "thermal_zone" and "fan". For some reason these devices do not get set up properly.
So, I started reading through the "Linux Device Drivers" book and I'm reading the ACPI code to see if I can figure this out.
Hurry and write that code... (Score:2)