On Monday 22 August 2005 11:12 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Monday 22 August 2005 04:44 am, Keith Powell wrote: > > Thanks, Anne. > > > > I too have had the problem of 2005LE not switching off the > > machine. > > > > Adding acpi=on has cured it. I had already tried all the > > "possible" cures! > > > > Of all the distros I have tried, Mandriva2005LE is the only one > > which wouldn't switch the computer off. > > I just want to throw out this small caveat for those trying this. > ACPI has found its way into a lot of things including IRQ > assignments among others. Forcing ACPI to be fully implemented in > software when your hardware may be non-standard could cause some > severe problems. If Mandriva is not turning it on, could be > because the detection routine is picking up on some type of > non-standard implementation and it defaults to safe choices. > > If it works, hey, great. However, being slightly more > conservative, I might choose to default to trying out APM rather > than ACPI in this particular case. At the very least, you should > try out all of your hardware and keep a watch on any intermittent > problems that might lead you to suspect some type of hardware > issue. Especially any kernel panics, even if they don't seem to > occur frequently or be related. I can think of several instances > where I had major issues with ACPI daemons on an earlier > motherboard that seemed to have a less than standard implementation > of it.
Brian. Thanks for the information. Do you mean that it would be safer to try apm=on instead of acpi=on, or a different apm command? Sorry, but I am a bit confused! Cheers Keith
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