Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Post-halloween doc updates. | From | Ian Soboroff <> | Date | Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:06:31 -0500 |
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And APM suspend seems to have broken in -test8. Does it work for anyone?
Ian
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> writes:
> Power management. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > - 2.6 contains a more up to date snapshot of the ACPI driver. Should > you experience any problems booting, try booting with the argument > "acpi=off" to rule out any ACPI interaction. ACPI has a much more involved > role in bringing the system up in 2.6 than it did in 2.4 > - The old "acpismp=force" boot option is now obsolete, and will be ignored > due to the old "mini ACPI" parser being removed. > - software suspend is still in development, and in need of more work. > Use with SMP and/or PREEMPT not advised. > - The ACPI code will do basic sanity checks on the DMI structure in the BIOS > to determine the date it was written. BIOSes older than year 2000 are > assumed to be broken. In some circumstances, this assumption is wrong. > If you see a message saying ACPI is disabled for this reason, try booting > with acpi=force. If things work fine, send the output of dmidecode > (http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/) to acpi-devel@lists.sf.net > with an explanation of why your BIOS shouldn't be blacklisted.
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