From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.redhat.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test4 - lost ACPI
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:55:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030823145545.2b7d6ec9.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030823105243.GA1245@irc.pl>
Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl> wrote:
>
> I am using ACPI for few years now. As far as I can see, on my
> machine it is only usfeul for binding events to Power button (like
> running fbdump) and for powering off. I'm also experimenting
> with swsusp, which I run by /proc/acpi/sleep.
>
> 2.6.0-test4 has a surprise for me:
me too.
> ACPI disabled because your bios is from 00 and too old
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
One of my trusty-but-old testboxes does exactly the same thing. It's just
the ACPI guys running away from broken BIOSes I think ;)
Add "acpi=force" to your kernel boot command line and everything should work
as before.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-23 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-23 10:52 Tomasz Torcz
2003-08-23 21:55 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-08-23 22:04 ` Tomasz Torcz
2003-08-23 22:24 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-24 21:27 ` Wes Janzen
2003-08-23 16:47 Brown, Len
2003-08-23 16:59 ` Tomasz Torcz
2003-08-23 20:58 Brown, Len
2003-08-23 22:31 Brown, Len
2003-08-24 2:07 Felipe Alfaro Solana
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