From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:59:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:59:04 -0400 Received: from AMontpellier-205-1-4-20.abo.wanadoo.fr ([217.128.205.20]:40197 "EHLO microsoft.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:59:03 -0400 Subject: 2.4.19-pre10-ac2: APM & ACPI From: Xavier Bestel To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 25 Jun 2002 00:59:08 +0200 Message-Id: <1024959550.3208.11.camel@nomade> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have an SMP Via VP6 mobo. Here is an excerpt from dmesg: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16) apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe (power off active). then: ACPI: APM is already active, exiting That's weird, because I left apm only to power off the machine (otherwise it doesn't), knowing that it wouldn't be enabled because of the SMP mobo. ACPI should still work. (OTOH, I finally disabled ACPI because (after compiling without APM) it appears it randomly freezes or reboots my machine ..)