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making ACPI work in Linux

May 15, 2002, 2:41 PM
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making ACPI work in Linux
I'm using Mandrake Linux 8.2, booting with kernel version 2.4.18-6mdkenterprise. When the computer goes into standby mode (ie, automaticly or by manually running "apm -s" or "apm -S"), I can't come out of it. The keyboard and mouse become unresponsive, and the monitor recieves no video (monitor displays an error that the video cord might be disconnected).

I have acpi turned off in the bios, and the apmd service turned off. In lilo.conf, I added, as suggested in many newsgroup posts, "noapic apm=off".

However, while Linux is booting, this always shows up:
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kernel: Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
kernel: Found and enabled local APIC!
kernel: Using local APIC timer interrupts.
kernel: calibrating APIC timer ...
kernel: PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing

Is there something I'm missing that I need in order to force acpi to be disabled? I never had problems coming out of standby in Windows ME/2k/XP if that is any help.

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May 16, 2002, 9:10 PM
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hm... okay apic has nothing to do with acpi. I'm just dislexic.

also I just needed to run the "lilo" command and reboot. Why config files on Linux aren't dynamicly loaded is beyond me.

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