From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hi7vo-0005Vz-2Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:51:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3TBnDdq014472; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:49:13 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3TBnDQC014467 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:49:13 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id E3F62206D48 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:49:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C92206D45 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:49:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de (account wevah [139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.8) with ESMTPSA id 22346715 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:49:12 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.21 problem Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:49:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200704291137.31330.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200704291137.31330.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704291349.08002.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 175ba239-7930-48ce-8497-2477693ae989 X-Archives-Hash: 2a568eb45ce68645beb63113020fd9e5 On Sonntag, 29. April 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On syncing today I was offered gentoo-sources-2.6.21. On attempting to > compile it I get: > > drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_rtc_init': > glue.c:(.init.text+0x34c2): undefined reference to `pnp_bus_type' > drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_bus_generate_event': > (.text.acpi_bus_generate_event+0x25): undefined reference to > `event_is_open' drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_bus_get_power': > (.text.acpi_bus_get_power+0x97): undefined reference to > `acpi_power_get_inferred_state' > drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_bus_set_power': > (.text.acpi_bus_set_power+0xf3): undefined reference to > `acpi_power_transition' > drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_bus_set_power': > (.text.acpi_bus_set_power+0x165): undefined reference to > `acpi_power_transition' > > Does this imply that I'm required to include a full ACPI setup in my > kernels? I'm trying to prevent all attempts to switch my monitor off, but > without a lot of success so far. (If I haven't told the machine to do > something, it shouldn't do it; and I want control over my peripherals > thank-you-very-much.) ACPI and switching the monitor off are two completly unrelated problems. ACPI is not evil - and some machines even need ACPI to boot. There is no reason to not have ACPI in the kernel. And monitor - that is something for your xorg.conf and xset. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list