20 Nov
2004
20 Nov
'04
09:24
On Saturday 20 November 2004 02:34, Ford Prefect wrote:
Hello. I was disappointed to find that on upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2 on my Gericom Ego laptop (Centrino 1.7G, AMI BIOS) that
PROBLEM 1: unless I put "acpi=off" in the boot options, I get a kernel OOPS which results in KDE startup dwelling on the "initializing peripherals" stage for ages and then giving up (initialisation progress window disappearing). I don't want to include all the ACPI debug messages but here's some stuff:
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PROBLEM 2: The OS is unable to switch the machine off, whether ACPI is enabled or not.
Any suggestions, please?
Perhaps a BIOS upgrade? Cheers, Leen