On Saturday 25 July 2009 10:32:08 am Martin Jedamzik wrote:
Am Freitag 24 Juli 2009 23:39:51 schrieb Ken Schneider - openSUSE:
Jean-Pierre Abgottspon pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Thursday 23 July 2009 10:02:10 am Martin Jedamzik wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 23. Juli 2009 01:01:21 schrieb Jean-Pierre Abgottspon:
Hello Martin,
1. Did manage to check into the boot/grub/menu.lst 2. Did find the acpi option already set to acpi=off 3. My vmlinuz version reads: ...vmlinuz 2.6.22.5-31-default...
Well... tks for help. It does not help, or did you mean that I enter acpi=force instead of acpi=off ? Bye JPA
etc. etc. (just cutting out earlier messages).
ACPI is an abbreviation of "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface". In
contrast to the old standard APM, the OS has full control over the computers powermanagment. ACPI is initialized quite early in the boot process, you can see quite a few messages from it's initialization in /var/log/boot.msg. If ACPI is set to "off", it is no miracle that the computer does not switch off. The ACPI option has to be set in the menu.lst (permanently), since it is a kernel parameter, not a module option. Nevertheless, I strongly suggest to use the 11.1, because there have been many improvements over the 10.3. If there are problems, just post them on the list, I'm quite sure these thinks get sorted out. Since the list members will ask quite often for configuration data, may I recommend this tool?
http://www.novell.com/communities/node/2332/supportconfig-linux
Just unpack the resulting tarball and choose the relevant textfiles for your problem. (in our case that would be boot.txt, hardware.txt and messages.txt)
Best regards,
Martin
Dear Martin, Dear Ken, 1. I checked up again on your earlier suggestion to modify ACPI to: Acpi = force. It shows as 'forced', (Is a trivial error possible, with ACPI in Capitals rather than minors ?). My PC has been rebooted a few times since you told me to modify the menu list. I still have to switch it off manually. 2. Thanks for the suggestion about the 'support config tool'. I am too much of a newbie to master any rpm or tar downloads. The only thing I can master is with Yast's assist. i.e. the other day I went thru Yast's software management, I typed 'mc', it offered me to load Midnight Commander and checked on the dependencies for me. I downloaded it and... it got to work. fine !!! 3. I consulted the var/log/boot.msg. Now this for me comes out as if it were the 'Book of Dreams'. Thousand of lines. Most interesting. Of what I understand my ACPI is forced all right. But I may have trouble with the 'IOMMU option in the BIOS'. This may lie with the SATA + PATTA controllers. (Trouble with my PC's CPU power equal or higher than 4G). Thus I added a few more questions to the string of the ones I have in store. 4. Switching from 10.3 to 11.1. Forget it I tried it and had to back down. It's riddled with bugs or options with are set up by default and all amount to a terrible mess. As a newbie I have managed for years to get going easily enough with regular openSuse updates and always set up my system, comm line, printer etc. single handed. Now why do I buck ? You see with the 11.1 mess I decided to now understand what's Linux all about. I bought myself a combo course with cbt nuggets. It shipped: 1. Linux can't read the DVD's 2. Cbt nuggets sent me the file in bits which I stored on my Desktop 3. Cbt nuggets told me to load VLC soft to read this video file. 4. With Yast I downloaded the VLC soft. 5. I can visualize the course but don't get any sound. No matter how much I toggle the settings. Now See Mart ! Does Linux do anything more than allow one to read/send mail and browse the I'net with Firefox ? I am sure it can, ...if it can allow to turn off my PC, without me having to pull the plug. Tks for your valuable help, say hello for me to Ken. JPA -- LINUX SOIGNE VOS BITS !!! BUERSTET IHRE BITS SAUBER MIT LINUX !!! GIVE YOUR BITS A GOOD SHINE WITH LINUX !!! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org