APCI hangs laptop at boot

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, J.L. Coenders wrote:

> What I forgot was my question... how to turn ACPI off?
>
> On Wednesday 14 July 2004 09:12 pm, J.L. Coenders wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I seem to have a problem with the ACPI in FC2. I tried Knoppix which has
> > APM and it boots fine, however it doesnt show the correct battery status.
> > With FC2 and ACPI the battery status is ok, but when shutting down is shows
> > as a last line "acpi_power_off called" and it hangs. When I power down
> > manually then, it would boot up anymore, until I remove the battery, remove
> > the adapter, and fiddle around with everything a lot. So, to me it seems to
> > be a problem with the acpi.
> > I have a NEC FP440.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > - Jeroen

Add "acpi=off" to the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf and reboot.  Without
acpi enabled, apm will run automagically in its place.

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		Matthew Saltzman

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