It seems that I have sucessfully installed SUSE. However, when I boot it after a while the boot process seems to succeed but then the computer powers off. In the manual there appears to be a different install process relating to power problems. Should I use the "Installation - ACPI disabled" option? Can I just do this inasmuch as SUSE is already installed? There is another option "Installation - Local APIC disabled" but no explanation of what this is. What do APCI and APIC stand for? The install also did not detect my wireless interface. I assume I can get that set up once SUSE boots up properly. Thanks! Doug
Douglas, On Tuesday 11 July 2006 04:33, Douglas Dotson wrote:
It seems that I have sucessfully installed SUSE.
It would be very helpful if you said which version of SuSE / Novell Linux you've installed and something about the hardware on which you installed it.
However, when I boot it after a while the boot process seems to succeed but then the computer powers off. In the manual there appears to be a different install process relating to power problems. Should I use the "Installation - ACPI disabled" option?
No. ACPI is "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface" and is how the software interacts with the hardware for things like power-down after software shutdown. Without it you definitely won't get the option of having the power supply turn off automatically when you shut the operating system down.
Can I just do this inasmuch as SUSE is already installed? There is another option "Installation - Local APIC disabled" but no explanation of what this is. What do APCI and APIC stand for?
APIC is the Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller. That's involved in making plug-and-play work and you don't want to disable it. I'm unfamiliar with the options and issues of changing this aspect of your installation configuration after the fact.
The install also did not detect my wireless interface. I assume I can get that set up once SUSE boots up properly.
Wireless still has somewhat marginal support in Linux. You may be able to get it working, depending on which hardware you have, but you may need to use the NDIS wrapper to enable the use of a Windows driver under Linux. Not surprisingly, you can learn a bit about these things on line. E.g.: - ACPI <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACPI> - APIC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APIC> - NDIS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDIS> - NDIS Wrapper <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndiswrapper> Of these, only the ACPI entry has much detail, but there are links to other resources and there's always Internet search: <http://a9.com/>.
Thanks! Doug
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Doug, On Tuesday 11 July 2006 04:33, Douglas Dotson wrote:
It seems that I have sucessfully installed SUSE. However, when I boot it after a while the boot process seems to succeed but then the computer powers off. In the manual there appears to be a different install process relating to power problems. Should I use the "Installation - ACPI disabled" option? ...
It looks like it read too hastily. Apparently you've got a problem with spurious shut-down? That can be a symptom of poor ACPI interaction that is sometimes encountered among older hardware with poor compliance with the ACPI standard. In that case, removing ACPI support may rectify the problem. Sorry for being uncareful.
Thanks! Doug
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-----Original Message----- From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:rschulz@sonic.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 8:48 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Power down after bootup.
Doug,
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 04:33, Douglas Dotson wrote:
It seems that I have sucessfully installed SUSE. However, when I boot it after a while the boot process seems to succeed but then the computer powers off. In the manual there appears to be a different install process relating to power problems. Should I use the "Installation - ACPI disabled" option? ...
It looks like it read too hastily. Apparently you've got a problem with spurious shut-down? That can be a symptom of poor ACPI interaction that is sometimes encountered among older hardware with poor compliance with the ACPI standard. In that case, removing ACPI support may rectify the problem.
I'll try installing with ACPI disabled. The computer is only a couple of months old so I would hope that its implementation of ACPI is good.
Sorry for being uncareful.
Thanks! Doug
Randall Schulz
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-07-11 at 08:51 -0400, Douglas Dotson wrote:
I'll try installing with ACPI disabled. The computer is only a couple of months old so I would hope that its implementation of ACPI is good.
You can simply boot with safe settings, there is a manu entry for that in the grub boot menu. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEtV3ptTMYHG2NR9URAspuAKCKRRFL7cJp0fRLzoZBWhSbKTGpAACgh8aK c+3CQRhK/I0lkT/UiIRvdRI= =MoOp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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