-----Original Message----- From: Brian Durant [mailto:durant@cbn.net.id] Sent: 05 June 2002 05:14 To: SuSE Linux-e Subject: Re: [SLE] Can't Powerdown SuSE 8.0? On Tuesday 04 June 2002 21:30, David Robertson wrote: - It sounds like an acpi issue to me. If you have an acpi system, you need to - enable it in the kernel (which it is in SuSE 8 by default) and also have - power management enabled. Try adding "enableapic" to the "append" line in - /etc/lilo.conf then run/bin/lilo - - That may help. However, acpi in SuSE's 2.4.18 kernel seems flawed in some - way to me:
I have done that without success. I too believe that there is a kernel issue here. As I stated in an earlier e-mail, this issue goes back to at least SuSE 7.3
Cheers,
Brian
I agree. Sorry - I don't have any more suggestions really. I've always understood that acpi and apm were sort of mutually exclusive - whichever gets loaded first is used. I found, however, that I needed acpi built in to the kernel, as well as apm bios, and then power management, including shutting down was fine. In the append line of lilo.conf, I then just had "enableapic" (not "enableacpi") and no reference to apm. With SuSE 7.3, I was able to patch a vanilla 2.4.18 kernel with the acpi patches from Sourceforge and get the system running perfectly. I haven't been able to do that with 8.0: the default kernel won't accept the patches and I can't get the system to run with a patched vanilla kernel. So, I've gone over to Debian for my "legacy-free, acpi-enabled, Toshiba, Linux-very-unfriendly" laptop, because of its greater flexibility and, yes, ease of running/maintenance. I'm disappointed - I've always liked SuSE and I'm keeping it on my home PC because my 11 year-old daughter really likes it (or likes green geckos, I think!). I find 8.0 to be inflexible, slow and very buggy - definitely my worst experience with SuSE so far. Judging from some of the posts in this list, I'm not alone in that view. And why oh why did they get rid of YaST1? David