Hi there,

I've installed Slackware 9.1 on my laptop and I'm having a couple of issues getting things to work properly. Here is a list of the things I am having problems with:

1. I'm trying to get acpi power management to work. I went to http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ and downloaded the latest kernel patch but after all was said and done, I can't get it to work

2. I've created a new user profile for myself and I would like to be able to have the same access privilages as when I'm logged in as root. I'm sure there is a way using umask but I'm not sure how.

3. I'm also having sound problems. After I installed the acpi kernel patch and recompiled the kernel, I can't run alsamixer to set soundcard properties

4. My laptop has a total of 1Gb of ram. Slackware only detects about 890 Mb or so, I believe I have to pass a parameter to the kernel when booting with lilo but again I'm not sure what it would be.

I'm sure there are a couple of other things I'm missing but if anyone can help out with these that would be great!


thanks
Kierse

You can try the bareacpi.i kernel on the Slackware disk for acpi support. You may prefer to build your own optimized kernel, but this might be a temporary fix for both of your first two problems. I am running the bareacpi.i kernel on the new laptop I am typing this from, and it seems to work all right so far, but I haven't really tested the suspend features. The parameter to pass to the kernel for memory is
mem=1024M
theoretically at least. But I have not had to use this lately, so I don't know how applicable it is to your particular situation.

ok,

acpi seems to be working now using the bareacpi.i kernel but I'm still having problems with sound and slack still reports the incorrect amount of main memory. Any ideas?

kierse

1. The ACPI patch is great on my tosh laptop! When you say 'after all was said and done' do you actually mean that you have fully recompiled your kernel? IT is necessary I am afraid after you have patched it with the ACPI patch...
2. The whole point about creating another user than root, is not to have root privileges... However, you can have your user in the 'root' group which should give you more privileges.. If you post exactly what you cannot do as a non-root user, more info to follow..
3. If you use alsa for the sound, after recompiling your kernel, you must reinstall at least the alsa-driver package. The modules get removed when compiling kernel. Just get the latest alsa-driver package from the alsa website and ./configure && make && make install. Alsaconf shoud work after that.
4. Already solved, you need to set High Memory support when you make menuconfig.

Hope it helps!
L

after I installed the acpi patch and recompiled the kernel nothing happened, acpi didn't seem to be working. It's very possible I did something wrong seeing as its the first time I've ever compiled the kernel. I did get acpi to work using the bareacpi.i kernel that comes with the slackware installation cd. Would I get better results with the patch?

As to the user problem, I am having a couple of specific problems:
1. After installing Mozilla Firebird I can run it when logged on as root, but when logged in as another user it won't run
2. When logged in as user other than root I can't access my mounted windows partition.

I'm assuming I can set access to these folders/apps using umask but I really don't want to have to do that every time I require access to a new folder/app. Thats why I was looking for a way to set access once and be done with it.

I'll give the other suggestions a try and see if they work

thanks
kierse

ok,

when I recompile the kernel with high memory support that fixes the memory issue, but it also screws up acpi. I recompiled the kernel with acpi support enabled but it still doesn't work. The only way I seem to be able to get it going is by using bareacpi.i that comes with the installation cd, but then when I recompile it to enable other features acpi stops working

anyone got any ideas?
kierse

anything?

When I've recompiled my kernel with the ACPI Patch applied, I've had to make sure that APM support was turned off. I also switched on all of the ACPI functions except CPU Enumeration (something to do with debugging I think). I'm sure I did something with acpid as well to get it running, but I can't remember what (ie I made sure that the acpi daemon: acpid was running at startup).

Cheers
Amos

k, I'll give it a try

to check if the acpid daemon is running do I just ps and check which system process' are running?

thanks
kierse