I have installed slackware 10 on my Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop. When I did
I didn't realize that I probably should have installed bareacpi.i (or
whatever the name of that kernel is) rather than bare.i in order to use
the power management. I didn't know anything about acpi. APM doesn't work
well with this laptop. The battery indicator reads 0 even when the battery
is fully charged and apm -s shuts the system down okay but then it tends
to hang or run very slowly when I turn it back on.

My question is this, is it worth my time and effort to reinstall slackware
with the acpi kernel. Is acpi worth the effort?

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:33:29 +0000, Ed LaBonte wrote:


> My question is this, is it worth my time and effort to reinstall slackware
> with the acpi kernel. Is acpi worth the effort?

It isn't necessary to reinstall. Just install the bareacpi.i, System.map
and config, recreate the 2 symlinks and edit LiLo to use the new kernel.

Et circa horam Wednesday 25 of August 2004 18:33, clamavit Ed LaBonte:

> My question is this, is it worth my time and effort to reinstall slackware
> with the acpi kernel. Is acpi worth the effort?

IMO you should give it a try, because you do *not* have to reinstall
Slackware in order to use different kernel. All you have to do is to spend
5 minutes, doing the following:

1. Boot from Slackware CD1
2. Mount your root partition somewhere, i.e. in /mnt
3. Execute "setup"
4. Select "Configure" and use bareeacpi.i kernel from CD, when the installer
asks you. Go through the rest of the configuration.

That should be all. If something goues wrong (I have seen such thing under
Slack 9.1 - some things, that worked with bare.i, would not work with
bareacpi.i), you return exactly the same way - starting from CD,
configuring, selecting bare.i from CD.

regards, jkb

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In alt.os.linux.slackware, Jacek K B³aszkowski dared to utter,
> 1. Boot from Slackware CD1
> 2. Mount your root partition somewhere, i.e. in /mnt
> 3. Execute "setup"
> 4. Select "Configure" and use bareeacpi.i kernel from CD, when the installer
> asks you. Go through the rest of the configuration.

Why are you rebooting to the install cd? Try this from inside your
installation.
# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
# cd /mnt/cdrom/kernels/bareacpi.i
# for i in *; do cp $i /boot/${i}-bareacpi
# cd /boot
# rm System.map config vmlinuz

Now just recreate those symlinks you deleted and point them to the new
kernel, System.map, and config. Run lilo, and reboot.

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Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
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Et circa horam Wednesday 25 of August 2004 22:08, clamavit +Alan Hicks+:

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> In alt.os.linux.slackware, Jacek K B?aszkowski dared to utter,
>> 1. Boot from Slackware CD1
>> 2. Mount your root partition somewhere, i.e. in /mnt
>> 3. Execute "setup"
>> 4. Select "Configure" and use bareeacpi.i kernel from CD, when the
>> installer asks you. Go through the rest of the configuration.
>
> Why are you rebooting to the install cd? Try this from inside your
> installation.

I suggested using the install CD, because it seems to be the easiest and
user-friendly method.

Regards, jkb

--
Jacek K. B³aszkowski
GAT/L/MU d+ s+:+ a-- C++$ UL++$ US+> P L++ E--- W+ N++ o+ K- w+$ O?
M> V? PS+ PE++ Y-- PGP++ t 5? X R tv b++++ DI++ D+ G e h-- r++ y++

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:08:32 -0500, +Alan Hicks+ wrote:

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>> Why are you rebooting to the install cd? Try this from inside your
> installation.
> # mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> # cd /mnt/cdrom/kernels/bareacpi.i
> # for i in *; do cp $i /boot/${i}-bareacpi
I tried to run the above, but when I entered this stmt I got a '>' prompt

Not knowing how to continue, I did a ctl-c

John wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:08:32 -0500, +Alan Hicks+ wrote:
>>> Why are you rebooting to the install cd? Try this from inside your
>> installation.
>> # mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>> # cd /mnt/cdrom/kernels/bareacpi.i
>> # for i in *; do cp $i /boot/${i}-bareacpi
> I tried to run the above, but when I entered this stmt I got a '>' prompt

this line:

# for i in *; do cp $i /boot/${i}-bareacpi

should read:

# for i in *; do cp $i /boot/${i}-bareacpi ; done

> Not knowing how to continue, I did a ctl-c

learn to bash, it's a vital skill in slack. ;-)

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> learn to bash, it's a vital skill in slack. ;-)

Yes, of course.

A followup question.

Focusing on the file on my DVD, 'System.map.gz' the apparent corresponding
file in /boot is System.map-ide-2.4.26. System.map-ide-2.4.26 seems to be
gunzipped as it is size 620099. After I run the subject command, the file
in /boot is System.map.gz-bareacpi and the size is 165546. Can I just
re-link System.map to the gzipped System.map.gz-bareacpi or will
it need to be unzipped first?

Ed LaBonte wrote:

> I have installed slackware 10 on my Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop. When I did
> I didn't realize that I probably should have installed bareacpi.i (or
> whatever the name of that kernel is) rather than bare.i in order to use
> the power management. I didn't know anything about acpi. APM doesn't work
> well with this laptop. The battery indicator reads 0 even when the battery
> is fully charged and apm -s shuts the system down okay but then it tends
> to hang or run very slowly when I turn it back on.
>
> My question is this, is it worth my time and effort to reinstall slackware
> with the acpi kernel. Is acpi worth the effort?

I think so.

--
"If a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn't get very far."
-- Paul White

> Why are you rebooting to the install cd? Try this from inside your
> installation.
> # mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> # cd /mnt/cdrom/kernels/bareacpi.i
> # for i in *; do cp $i /boot/${i}-bareacpi
> # cd /boot
> # rm System.map config vmlinuz
>
> Now just recreate those symlinks you deleted and point them to the new
> kernel, System.map, and config. Run lilo, and reboot.

I hate to sound like an idiot, but, well... How do you do that last part
recreating the symlinks? I'm kind of a newbie, as you might have guessed.