APCI hangs laptop at boot

[J.L. Coenders]

But does anyone know if the 1.0.3 is better than the FC2 included 1.0.2 
version? Or does anybody else have this problem?

- Jeroen

On Wednesday 14 July 2004 10:37 pm, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 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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>
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