Re: [newbie] power down

2003-12-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 07:41 am, JoeHill wrote: less /usr/src/linux-2.4.23-0.rc5.2mdk/Documentation/kernel-paramet ers.txt     That's for my kernel version. Try 'locate -i parameters' to find yours.  IIRC, 'nolapic' is no local advanced programmable interrupt control.  ie,

Re: [newbie] power down

2003-12-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 29 December 2003 05:52 pm, Christoph Eckert wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2003 00:29 schrieb JoeHill: I'm familiar with acpi=off and noapic, what is nolapic? I'm sorry, but I do not know. The line is derived from a SuSE 9.0

Re: [newbie] power down

2003-12-30 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 07:12:16 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry, but I do not know. The line is derived from a SuSE 9.0 installation which crashed very often, so I got some parameters from the web and played with them (without result, so I switched to Mandrake ;-) .

Re: [newbie] power down

2003-12-29 Thread Christoph Eckert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 29. Dezember 2003 23:21 schrieb Gary Schauer: I have installed 9.2 on my old machine a pentium2 with an intel motherboard,it when i go to shut down it goes through the entire process but will not shut of the computer. I had to add an

Re: [newbie] power down

2003-12-29 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 00:01:01 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Eckert) wrote: I had to add an option to my menu.lst which is a config file of grub. Unfortunately, I do not remember which of them it was: acpi=off noapic hdb=ide-scsi hdblun=0 nolapic apm=on I guess that you are

Re: [newbie] power down

2003-12-29 Thread Christoph Eckert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2003 00:29 schrieb JoeHill: I'm familiar with acpi=off and noapic, what is nolapic? I'm sorry, but I do not know. The line is derived from a SuSE 9.0 installation which crashed very often, so I got some parameters from

Re: [newbie] power down

2003-12-29 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 00:52:38 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Eckert) wrote: I'm sorry, but I do not know. The line is derived from a SuSE 9.0 installation which crashed very often, so I got some parameters from the web and played with them (without result, so I switched to Mandrake ;-)

Re: [newbie] power down

2003-12-29 Thread Ramin M
I am having the same situation! I have disabled ACPI and now at the final moment i have to push the power button to turn off the computer. However i don´t have any complaint about this. It is quite normal to do this! With ACPI on, the Mandrake was able to physically turn off the machine.

[newbie] Power down TFT screen

2000-12-23 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I've got a problem with the TFT screen of my laptop. It powers down after 2 minutes of inactivity (right) but a bit later the screen "powers on" without showing anything (i just see it's on), and if i touch any key it powers down and it doesn't work any more. The only thing i can do is