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From: Ducrot Bruno <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
To: BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_work-whZMOeQn8C0@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: 2001-(Ali chipset)mainboard with no ACPI because "from '97 and too old"!
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:30:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031010083042.GL11391@poupinou.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310092108.15747.blaisorblade_work-whZMOeQn8C0@public.gmane.org>

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:08:15PM +0200, BlaisorBlade wrote:
> The subject explains almost all. On my desktop, my mainboard (from 1st 
> mainboards, with an AMI bios, if I don't remember badly) appears, on boot, as 
> "from '97 and too old" so ACPI is disabled; see top of dmesg output (on 
> kernel 2.4.22). On some older version of the patch(I've used the -ck patchset 
> since kernel 2.4.20, and it included ACPI, and I've had it in the Mandrake 
> 9.0/9.1 kernel) my mainboard was correctly handled and ACPI didn't create any 
> problems. All required data is attached. Please address any question on Cc: 
> to me, since I'm not subscribed. Thanks.

Dmesg said:

<quote>
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 97                         and too old
You can enable it with acpi=force
</quote>

so reboot with kernel parameter acpi=force.

-- 
Ducrot Bruno

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-10  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-09 19:08 2001-(Ali chipset)mainboard with no ACPI because "from '97 and too old"! BlaisorBlade
     [not found] ` <200310092108.15747.blaisorblade_work-whZMOeQn8C0@public.gmane.org>
2003-10-10  8:30   ` Ducrot Bruno [this message]

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