On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:17:59 +0000 "Elmer E. Dow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:02:58 +0000 > >"Elmer E. Dow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Vincent Smeets wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Hallo, > >>> > >>>I have an old (1999) computer too. dmesg showed that the kernel does > >>>find my ACPI but doesn't use it because my bios is too old. It says > >>>something like "... bios too old (1999 < 2001)". I now use the kernel > >>>parameter "acpi=force" and now the kernel is using my ACPI. Poweroff > >>>does now realy switch the power off! > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>I've read that acpi=force works with 2.4 kernels but not 2.6 like mine. > >>What kernel are you using? > >> > >> > > > >If you look at your dmesg it suggests just that, enabling it. It can't hurt > >to try > > > > > > > >>Also, power management is enabled in the bios. Is that correct or is it > >>fighting apm? > >> > >>Elmer > >> > >> > >>-- > >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > > > >Andrei > > > > > acpi=force works! I first tried removing apmd, deleting apm in > /etc/modules and adding acpi there. I also installed acpid and so on, > but the machine complained of fatal errors, etc. So I uninstalled acpid, > deleted acpi in /etc/modules and left just acpi=force in menu.lst -- and > it worked. > > So now I'm wondering how this works without the acpi module or having > acpi compiled into the kernel. Does forcing acpi just makes it use the > power management in the bios? > > Thanks, gentlemen, for your kind assistance. > > Elmer lsmod should tell you what modules you have loaded. I bet 'acpi' is there. You should also install acpid and acpitool to have some control/monitoring (was that a laptop?). But that's just fine-tuning ;) Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]