On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 20:43 -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 11/06/2006 03:30 PM, Owen Heisler wrote: > > An old laptop I have supports ACPI, but when I use ACPI, the processor > > becomes very slow. Without ACPI enabled, it runs fine. > > I'm no expert at all, but you have no responses yet... So, any hints in > dmesg? On my PIII 500 mhz sarge box, I get this: > > ACPI disabled because your bios is from 1999 and too old > You can enable it with acpi=force
With no kernel parameters, ACPI runs without errors, although I haven't checked dmesg. > And sure enough, it doesn't like to run with acpi=force, so I've left it > alone. > > Perhaps you could remove acpi and load apm instead? When ACPI is enabled, I get a message saying that ACPI is being used instead of APM. When ACPI is disabled, APM is used. The only reason I would like to use ACPI is so the system will power off on a shutdown -h instead of just halting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
