On Saturday 20 January 2007 12:07, John Andersen wrote:
On Friday 19 January 2007 18:35, John Pierce wrote:
I placed acpi=force in /boot/grub/menu.lst and the problem has gone away. Prior to placing that on the kernel options line I had only 1 reference to acpi in /var/log/boot.msg and that had to do with the BIOS failing the cutoff date.
Glad that worked out for you. Anybody with a machine bios date earlier than 2001 should (by a year or two) should try this option at least once.
Dear John, Your comment draw my attention. Could you explain why for older machines acpi=force is advised? What does it do and why is force necessary? Are there more thing to be forced on an old computer? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org