On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 00:43, Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 02:43 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:10 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > > Doesn't work. I get an error message during boot: > > > > > > You might have to enable it in lilo during boot. Mine is off :- > > > append="devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off" > > > > > > If I remove acpi=off from the above, it is "on." But this is on a > > > desktop. You might need to add acpi=on in your /etc/lilo.conf > > > > I did. That's how I got the error message. ;-) > > > > append="acpi=off" --> no error message > > append="acpi=on" --> error message > > > > wobo > > That would make it appear the ACPI is not enabled in the kernel; or APM and > ACPI is enabled and APM is loaded first. In the kernel files there is mention > of whichever is loaded first is used? > > Hopefully this shines more light on the matter.
APM isn't supposed to load if ACPI is possible, though I haven't tried that on a laptop which supports both. Looking at that bug-e page, it sounds to me like it is an ACPI laptop but that this chip is too new for the current release of ACPI to handle. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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