On Thursday 31 October 2002 14:14, Herman L. Knief wrote:
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
->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?
Booting with acpi=off has worked with both of my laptops. However, doing that with my desktop made it unstable. I was trying to allow the desktop to go to sleep, but it seemed to crash whenever it tried and I had acpi=off. Without acpi=off, the desktop never even tries to sleep. Steve