On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 13:21 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > 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. > Well I am using 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 and acpi=force still does not allow the machine to shut down. I never had any shutdown problems with the FC5 kernels so our problems must be different. But there is no doubt in my mind it is a problem with the FC6 software. But what I still do not know. -- ======================================================================= Work continues in this area. -- DEC's SPR-Answering-Automaton ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
