[newbie] ACPI failed -another one!

2003-06-19 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
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

Re: [newbie] ACPI failed -another one!

2003-06-19 Thread John Richard Smith
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

Re: [newbie] ACPI failed -another one!

2003-06-19 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
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

Re: [newbie] ACPI failed -another one!

2003-06-19 Thread Richard Urwin
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

Re: [newbie] ACPI failed -another one!

2003-06-19 Thread John Richard Smith
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:

Re: [newbie] ACPI failed -another one!

2003-06-19 Thread John Layt
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

Re: [newbie] ACPI failed -another one!

2003-06-19 Thread eric huff
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