Re: [ACPI-sppt] Is about ACPI install on Dell Inspiron 8500, with Redhat 9

On 11/28/03 19:08, Chico wrote:

> To whom may concern,
> 
> I have Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop, running with Redhat
> 9 and kernel is 2.4.20-20.9.
> 
> I download file acpi-20031002-2.4.22.diff.gz and to
> install, but I get error message said.
> 
> [root@rhlaptop linux-2.4]# gunzip -c acpi*.diff.gz |
> patch -p1
> patching file Documentation/Configure.help
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 18970.
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 18991.
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 19025.
> Hunk #4 FAILED at 19040.
> 4 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> Documentation/Configure.help.rej
> patching file Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 73.
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.rej
> patching file MAINTAINERS
> Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! 
> Assume -R? [n]
> Apply anyway? [n] y
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 163.
> Hunk #2 succeeded at 235 with fuzz 1 (offset -29
> lines).
> 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> MAINTAINERS.rej
> patching file arch/i386/kernel/Makefile
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 38.
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> arch/i386/kernel/Makefile.rej
> can't find file to patch at input line 478
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |diff -Nru a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi.c
> b/arch/i386/kernel/acpi.c
> |--- a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi.c  Thu Nov 20 22:35:07
> 2003
> |+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/acpi.c  Thu Nov 20 22:35:07
> 2003
> --------------------------
> File to patch:
> 
> Not sure if that reall work or not, also I dont know
> what to put in of  File to patch: ???? 

Well, you're applying a 2.4.22 patch against a 2.4.20 kernel.  And to 
compound that, you're applying it to Redhat's kernel source, rather than 
the vanilla kernel source.  That no worky.

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