[ale] debian acpi module errors, framebuffer

Jay Loden jloden at toughguy.net
Wed Jan 26 13:09:33 EST 2005


Just an update to let everyone know I finally go it working by setting 
"acpi=on" in the grub boot line (go figure, it was the reverse problem, I 
needed to enable it, not disable it) and the framebuffer was simply setting 
"vga=791" to the boot line as well.  

-Jay

On Monday 24 January 2005 12:01 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> Jay Loden wrote:
> > Will I need acpi for battery/power management for the laptop though?
>
> Very likely, problem is, support is spotting and some hardware support
> is flakey.
>
> Seems like it's getting better as I move up the 2.6 kernel releases.



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