On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 11:40:10PM -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 17:25 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > I believe Fedora defaults to acpi unless you override that on the boot > > line. > > Yes. Add "acpi=off" to the grub kernel line. (This is effectively > "apm=on".) Many older notebooks do not work with acpi. Some apparently > don't work with either. Older laptops (those with a BIOS made earlier than 2001) will automatically disable acpi unless you boot with acpi=force. The quality pre 2001 was somewhat dire to say the least. Dave
