-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> writes:
> 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 Thanks. The https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/8955 link was really interesting. I posted a comment. Hope they will fix this later! - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iEYEARECAAYFAks/ecQACgkQM0LLzLt8MhyHzQCfZ3y+LbZAx3RQ9/RYZg8ZKEck SPcAniFXUWhoVs2y/ZN8z5JpRtfrDI0B =PP3Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
