I keep ketting the same damn error message when acpi tries to start. It says
Starting acpid: cant find /proc/acpi/events
I tried making an acpi directory in /proc and it says it cant. Ive been working on this all night, and have gotten absolutely nowhere. I even tried the RC2 since I heard it had "enhanced" acpi support, but it looks like it doesnt have jack so far. Now, how can I get this fixed, before it burns my laptop to a crisp? Do I need the new kernel? Do I need to patch the kernel? How can I change where acpid looks for the events directory? Someone please help...

First of all, quit trying to write things in /proc, it's a "virtual" file system mostly controlled by the kernel, read only. Check first your bios setup to see if acpi is enabled, then check /etc/lilo.conf to see if the default boot has "acpi=off" in it, if so, remove that section, then do not fail to run "lilo" before rebooting as no changes to lilo.conf will be recognized without it.

Been there, done all of that. I have no acpi options in the BIOS, and if i change lilo.conf to acpi=on, it freezes at boot. If I leave it at acpi=off, its still tries to start anyway, and doesnt freeze after the splash. My BIOS is not on the blacklist at the sourceforge website. Any other suggestions?

tried the "noapic" settting in lilo.conf?

forgot to add this: make sure you're not using apm and acpi at the same time, results are, shall we say "undefined".

What does the "noapic" do? I havent actually tried that. Ill give it a whirl. Also, apm is removed from my computer already. It didnt work either.