On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Felix Miata wrote:-
On 2008/07/23 18:28 (GMT+0100) David Bolt apparently typed:
Two things you could try. First is to force the use of ACPI using:
acpi=force
Works! :-)
Good. What probably happened was the kernel looked at the date of the BIOS, decided it was too old and so disabled ACPI for you.
Or you could try using APM instead of ACPI, that is if APM is still available[0]. The following kernel parameters might help:
acpi=off apm=on
Fails, as do apm=poweroff, acpi=ht, acpi=strict & acpi=poweroff.
I wasn't sure if it would work or not. It's been a while since I used it and the memory seems to not be quite as good as it once was.
Have you checked the kernel options used by TinyME Linux and tried using those with openSUSE?
It uses acpi=on, which fails with the SUSE 2.6.25 kernel.
It's probably because of the date in the BIOS is too old, malformed or completely missing. My guess is that it's just too old, or it would have failed with the 2.6.18 kernel, and that the 2.6.18 kernel has an earlier cut-off date which is older than the BIOS. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-P2 @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~15Mkeys SUSE 10.1 32 | | openSUSE 10.3 32bit | openSUSE 11.0 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit | openSUSE 10.3 64bit | openSUSE 11.0 64bit RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC | RISC OS 3.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org