Merciadri Luca put forth on 1/2/2010 2:39 AM: > Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> writes: > >> Other than eliminating this annoying problem of yours, it will disable power >> management, preventing things like sleep and suspend, so your PC might use >> slightly more electricity (which is pretty low anyway for an average PC, >> 50-75 >> watts average). > >> As long as you can still power down the system via the shutdown menu or the >> power button on the system chassis, I'd recommend leaving ACPI turned off. >> It's >> obviously causing problems. Exactly why I can't say. Could be a BIOS issue >> with the motherboard, a software bug in the kernel version you're using, or a >> combination of both. > > Okay. Thanks for everything. I am still wondering why the problem > appears randomly.
You're welcome. Hope it continues to run ok (no lockouts) with ACPI disabled. If you _really_ want to know what might be causing the problem, this may be a good place to start: http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/ http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/acpi/acpi_howto.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/8955 -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
