[quote="rickenbacherus"]Does your laptop need ACPI becasue it overheats? Tired of using a power strip to shut down your desktop becasue it won't power down correctly with APM? ACPI might just be your answer. It should be noted that ACPI does not work on all machines.
This is the easiest way I know of to get acpi working.
First you need an acpi patched kernel.. Oh No! you say- I Don't know how to build an acpi patched kernel. Not to worry. Thanks to the excellent efforts of Kano this couldn't possibly be any easier. It's already built!- you just have to install it and that's easier than falling off a dead horse. You can get the kernel and install scripts here:

http://debian.tu-bs.de/knoppix/Kano

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