I cannot use the bareacpi.i kernel for numerous reasons,
First im installing on a Compaq Presario R3203US laptop, whats causing the hang up is the snd-atiixp module I believe. If I install with the bare.i kernel, and add snd-atiixp-modem to hotplug/blacklist. I can get sound, but no power management. If I install with the bareacpi.i kernel I cannot get sound, even with adding the module in question to blacklist. I get power management but no sound. Id like to see if its possible to get this working in the default 2.4.29 kernel without having to recompile or install a new kernel. So if I want power management, I have no sound, If I want sound I have no power management, alsaconf does NOT show any errors eitherway.

if your board has support for APM (some BIOSs let you choose between APM and ACPI) then you could try using the apm module with bare.i for power management...

The only difference that I know of between bare.i and bareacpi.i are that bareacpi.i has acpi compiled into the kernel, and bare.i has them as modules. So you can always select bare.i, and then load the acpi modules after everything else. It's worth a try.

Eric