On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Ben Rosenberg wrote: ->* Anders Johansson (andjoh@rydsbo.net) [021031 13:49]: ->->On Thursday 31 October 2002 22.43, Joe Sullivan wrote: ->->> On Thursday 31 October 2002 19:56, Ben Rosenberg wrote: ->->> > problems with 8.1. Apparently it has to do with this silly ->->> > powermanagement stuff among other things. I have absolutely no issues ->->> > with 8.1 at work using a Compaq Deskpro (PIII800) w/ the ATI 7500 ->->> > Radeon. ->->> ->->> Is it possible to install without any power management stuff then? What ->->> RPMs should be unchecked during install? ->-> ->->No rpms, just boot with kernel parameter "acpi=off" -> ->I tried booting with "apm=off acpi=off" and it didn't do much good. Box ->still locked up. I was told it was a combination of things with that ->bios for that mb...but that it did work with 1011. *shrug* -> I've run into strange problems with various settings and it seems no two machines are alike. Some need apm=off and acpi-off... some need these on and other seems to be happier with apic enabled... it seems there's no way to tell what the machine will be happy with other than experimenting. Laptops are what pains me the most. Is seems the new kernel is built in such a way that most laptops I've installed seem to be aware of some form of power management... but they all seem to report that they can't give me a battery status or anything because apm is only partially enabled. Trying to run apmd puke all over itself... so what's left? - Herman