[newbie] ACPI failed -another one!
Hi I noticed on last boot up that I am getting a failed message for ACPI. Can anybody tell me where I find the log to see why this is failing. Somebody else on this list asked a while back and as far as I can see from reading the thread nobody answered on this particular question. John -- I have dreamed a dream but now that dream has gone from me. MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ASCII ribbon campaign /\ ICQ:92791912 - against HTML email \/ vCards /\ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ACPI failed -another one!
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi I noticed on last boot up that I am getting a failed message for ACPI. Can anybody tell me where I find the log to see why this is failing. Somebody else on this list asked a while back and as far as I can see from reading the thread nobody answered on this particular question. John try looking in /var/log/messages, very long script but you might find what your looking for there, or else in one of the log files in /var/log. John (S) -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ACPI failed -another one!
try looking in /var/log/messages, very long script but you might find what your looking for there, or else in one of the log files in /var/log. It says: Jun 17 16:53:34 pc-00066 kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122 Jun 17 16:53:34 pc-00066 kernel: ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off) Can I enable it again from the command line or is it not as simple as that? Is there anything else I need to look at? I read in one thing something about popt? Anybody know what that is and whether its relevant? John -- I have dreamed a dream but now that dream has gone from me. MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ASCII ribbon campaign /\ ICQ:92791912 - against HTML email \/ vCards /\ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ACPI failed -another one!
On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 8:16 pm, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: try looking in /var/log/messages, very long script but you might find what your looking for there, or else in one of the log files in /var/log. It says: Jun 17 16:53:34 pc-00066 kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122 Jun 17 16:53:34 pc-00066 kernel: ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off) Can I enable it again from the command line or is it not as simple as that? That's the bootup command line in lilo.conf, and it's probably been set off for a reason. Unless you have a laptop I wouldn't bother, and, if you try, make sure sound is working afterwards. Many people here have set it to off because sound didn't work with it on. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ACPI failed -another one!
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: try looking in /var/log/messages, very long script but you might find what your looking for there, or else in one of the log files in /var/log. It says: Jun 17 16:53:34 pc-00066 kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122 Jun 17 16:53:34 pc-00066 kernel: ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off) Can I enable it again from the command line or is it not as simple as that? Is there anything else I need to look at? I read in one thing something about popt? Anybody know what that is and whether its relevant? John Take a look in /etc/lilo.conf and see whether you have the bit about acpi=off in the append line like this, append=quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off if so try removing it and rebooting . The only question is if it's there why is it there , and does it matter if removed, I don't think it does, I shouldn't think it is likely to prevent booting. If it does you will have to use a text editor to put it back again , but I don't think it will stop you getting to desktop. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ACPI failed -another one!
Looks like the problem I was having (and many others beside) Here's how I fixed it: 1) Go into the Mandrake Control Center (MCC), under Boot choose DrakBoot 2) Click on the Lilo/Grub Configure button to bring up the Bootloader Main Options dialog 3) Ensure the Enable ACPI box is selected (but don't worry if it already is, as there's some bug that doesn't make it work!) 3a) You seem to already have ACPI installed, so the acpi and apci packages probably won't be required, but others may need to insert their install CD at this point 4) Click OK and you will get a dialog with the current list of Boot Menu entries 5) Select and Modify each linux type entry to bring up the Boot Parameters dialog 6) In the Append line, change the 'acpi=off' entry to read 'acpi=on' and click OK (this is the bug, selecting ACPI doesn't update this value) 7) Click OK in the Boot Menu list dialog 8) Click OK in the Bootloader Main Options dialog 9) Click OK in the DrakBoot window 10) Reboot to activate the new boot parameter (sorry about the up-time!) 11) Try a shutdown to see if it works Note that all those OK's are required, as at some point it forces the write of the lilo.conf file to the Master Boot Record. For the more adventurous of you out there, this can be done manually by editing your /etc/lilo.conf, then executing /sbin/lilo afterwards. Just editing lilo.conf by hand is not enough, you have to force lilo to copy your config to the MBR, otherwise the BIOS doesn't know about your changes and carries on with the old version. This is a common error and causes much frustration, as does forgetting to reboot. Hope this helps! John. On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 07:16, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: try looking in /var/log/messages, very long script but you might find what your looking for there, or else in one of the log files in /var/log. It says: Jun 17 16:53:34 pc-00066 kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122 Jun 17 16:53:34 pc-00066 kernel: ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off) Can I enable it again from the command line or is it not as simple as that? Is there anything else I need to look at? I read in one thing something about popt? Anybody know what that is and whether its relevant? John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ACPI failed -another one!
Jun 17 16:53:34 pc-00066 kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122 Jun 17 16:53:34 pc-00066 kernel: ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off) That's the bootup command line in lilo.conf, and it's probably been set off for a reason. Many people here have set it to off because sound didn't work with it on. For me, my parallel port won't work with acpi on! Never did solve that one. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
