On Monday 29 March 2004 03:26 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
> Just a side note I heard acpi and the rest was broken in some
> of the 2.6 kernels. The reason main reason is when I turned
> them off my machine does not power-off but does when they were
> turned on in 2.4 kernel. I can't have them on in 2.6 as I have
> an Nforce2 chipset and it does not work.
>
> Tony.
2.6.x ACPI is in very good health. It's nForce* based
motherboards that are broken. I believe the kludge I've seen for
nForce junk is to use 'apm=power-off' in lilo.conf
See the source/comments in
/usr/src/linux-2.6.?-?mdk/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c
........................ /rant/
Now before y'all nForce owners get upset, I use "junk" to
describe win-hardware. nVidia designs and builds its chips to
fully optimize under M$ operating systems, and in collaboration
with M$. The rave reviews and hyperbole you read (based your
hardware choice on?) have no relevance to use under a Linux OS.
Mainly because nVidia refuses (isn't allowed by M$ licensing) to
furnish source and hardware specs to kernel.org/OSS community.
So if ya get upset with anybody, direct it at Billy Goate$
first. This is his main crime, not integrating IE (US), or
Winsux Media Player (EU).
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
Proud to be an American
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