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Jim Bowering

2004-09-28, 2:48 am

I just installed MEPIS-Debian, using the 2.6.7 kernel. Now during boot
there's a notice that "APM is being overriden by ACPI." That's okay, but
now I can't get a software shutdown. It stops and says, "Power down."

With APM shutdown works perfectly, so I want to disable ACPI. But putting
acpi=off on the kernel line in grub doesn't do it and I can't find anything
that looks like acpi in init.d or any of the rc*.ds. I'm out of places to
look, so can anyone tell me how to disable acpi?
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Andreas Janssen

2004-09-28, 2:48 am

Helo

Jim Bowering (<iambat@otvcablelandot.net> ) wrote:

> I just installed MEPIS-Debian, using the 2.6.7 kernel. Now during
> boot there's a notice that "APM is being overriden by ACPI." That's
> okay, but now I can't get a software shutdown. It stops and says,
> "Power down."
>
> With APM shutdown works perfectly, so I want to disable ACPI. But
> putting acpi=off on the kernel line in grub doesn't do it and I can't
> find anything that looks like acpi in init.d or any of the rc*.ds.
> I'm out of places to look, so can anyone tell me how to disable acpi?


Try to use acpi=off to switch off acpi, and add apm to /etc/modules, or
load it using modprobe. Probably, unlike ACPI, which is compiled into
the kernel, the apm driver is compiled as a module that needs to be
loaded.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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Madhusudan Singh

2004-09-28, 7:54 am

Jim Bowering wrote:

> I just installed MEPIS-Debian, using the 2.6.7 kernel. Now during boot
> there's a notice that "APM is being overriden by ACPI." That's okay, but
> now I can't get a software shutdown. It stops and says, "Power down."
>
> With APM shutdown works perfectly, so I want to disable ACPI. But putting
> acpi=off on the kernel line in grub doesn't do it and I can't find
> anything
> that looks like acpi in init.d or any of the rc*.ds. I'm out of places to
> look, so can anyone tell me how to disable acpi?


In addition to acpi=off, have you tried putting in apm=on ?
Jim Bowering

2004-09-28, 5:45 pm

Andreas Janssen wrote:

> Helo
>
> Jim Bowering (<iambat@otvcablelandot.net> ) wrote:
>
>
> Try to use acpi=off to switch off acpi, and add apm to /etc/modules, or
> load it using modprobe. Probably, unlike ACPI, which is compiled into
> the kernel, the apm driver is compiled as a module that needs to be
> loaded.
>
> best regards
> Andreas Janssen
>


The kernel line in grub has both apm=on and acpi=off. That's always worked
with 2.4 kernels. APM is in /etc/modutils and /etc/rc*.d (except rcS.d).
I'll add it to /etc/modules and see what happens.

--
OS squared: open software times open standards.
Jim Bowering

2004-09-28, 5:45 pm

Jim Bowering wrote:

> Andreas Janssen wrote:
>
>
> The kernel line in grub has both apm=on and acpi=off. That's always
> worked
> with 2.4 kernels. APM is in /etc/modutils and /etc/rc*.d (except rcS.d).
> I'll add it to /etc/modules and see what happens.
>

No change. acpi is still overriding apm. Shutdown still goes only to
"power down" comment. "shutdown -r now" successfully reboots, though.
(Always has. Only complete shutdown fails.)

One of the comments in /var/log files says that it isn't doing acpi because
my MB is too old (1999), but it still overrides apm. I knew the MB was too
old, which is why I have to use apm. sigh.

--
OS squared: open software times open standards.
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