On Friday 12 January 2007 02:50, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 19:08 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > The first line after the <snip> here shows "ACPI: Disabling ACPI > > support", and this (and I'm convinced after some updates to FC5) is > > the same for all kernels later than the 2.6.15 one. > > One of my PCs gets a message like that, because it considers the BIOS to > be too old. Using acpi=force as a kernel parameter got that PC to work. Hi Tim. Bingo! That works, at least on the 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 kernel, that I've tried it on up to now. I'll try it later on with the later kernels, but on the face of it, the problem seems to be solved. Many thanks. Nigel.