ok I 4 problems that I am trying to get fixed but first let me tell you what I have

compaq/hp presario 2100(2175us) notebook runing the AMD 2400+
Mandrake 10.0 ce KDE 3.2 desktop

I have most things running on the system wireless and video and all that but here is what I cant figure out how to make work.

1. when I shut the system down it goes through terminating al the processes and when I look at verbos mode it gets clear down to where it says power down bu unfortunately it will not actually shut the system down. If I just restart the system it cycles the power and reboots with no issues what is going on here ?

2. I have no idea how to get status on my battery. I assume this is something with APM. I have looked though past postings and I have found a few things the look like they migh help but once I start reading further I find that I have no idea what is what.

3. On my notebook there are physical volume contols I assume that they are conrolled using ACPI but I have been unable to find out anything about how to go about making these work. Any suggestion here would be great.

4. This is kind of a side note but I have to ask. I am runing AIM , not GAIM or kopete or any of the other programs out there. I have tried a bunch of them and each one of them has an issue that just drives me nuts. AIM is simple straight foward and does exactly what it is supposed to with no bells and whistles. the only issue that I have is that I would very much like to have AIM start automatically upon booting the system. Also if it is possible I would like it to run in a icon mode like kopete does.

Thanks for your help guys

I'm running a presario 2197ca, same issues, except I dont use aim

OK - I had the same power issue with my Dell. It turned out it wasn't really an "issue". The solution was recompiling the kernel with ACPI support. Check out the kernel build howto. You may not have ACPI configured in your kernel. If this is the answer, ACPI should solve your first three problems.

Brian

yes that's what i did just today. you have to enable ACPI in your kernel and recompile it.

#works for me: 2.4.26 kernel:

#locate the original config, I think /boot/config-2.4.26 or very similar
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
cp /boot/config-2.4.26 .config
make menuconfig

#you will see a menu appear, from there just search for ACPI and make sure it's enabled
#exit the menu with ESC, it will ask you to save the new setting, do so

make dep
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install

mv /boot/System.map /boot/System.map.OLD
cp System.map /boot/
mv /boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz.OLD
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz

#look at your lilo config to make sure kernel name is vmlinuz, if not edit config and run /sbin/lilo



if you follow these steps carefully you should be ok, works for me always



good luck

My kernel has acpi support, that isn't the issue, its like it just doesn't want to use it. When i boot a kernel with acpi support on, and it enabled in lilo, the system just stops during boot, and hangs at 'loading'

its a Compaq presario, 2100 series

I have the same problem with the same series notebook (compaq 2199us from the 2100 series). I recompiled the kernel, but acpi and apm both seem to not work. During boot up, lilo displays the output of acpi, and it reports a bios error. Does this mean that acpi will not work with the bios? I cannot find a bios flash or anything.