I have apm=off in the boot parameters. Maybe I should turn them both off? > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Wilkinson > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 4:20 PM > To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases' > Subject: Re: NIC drops all packages > > > jludwig wrote: > > 1) ACPI used when APM?? should be used. (or the reverse) > > Mark replied: > > Oops, no idea what that means... > > ACPI and APM are two standards for power management and configuration. > The kernel developers tend to be rather rude about the > design, and very > rude about how it's implemented in too many motherboards. > > Only one such system can be run, and you have to reboot to change it. > > By default, ACPI will run if your BIOS is from 2001 or later. > Otherwise > APM will run (although it doesn't do much in SMP mode: APM isn't well > defined when there are two processors about). > > On the kernel command line in /boot/grub/grub.conf: e.g. > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7-1.478smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet > you can add the parameter acpi=off to force ACPI off, acpi=force to > force it on (useful if you have an older SMP box and you want it to be > able to turn itself off, for example), or apm=off to force APM off. > > Yes, you can have both of them off. > > HTH, > > James. > > -- > E-mail address: james@ | Susan hated Literature. > westexe.demon.co.uk | She'd much prefer to read a good book. > | -- "Soul Music", Terry Pratchett. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
