Re: Linux 2.4.20 ACPI

Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:09:12 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Tom Diehl wrote:

> Is this the same problem that Intel L440GX Motherboards have. In order to get
> it to boot I need to compile a custom kernel with acpi enabled. I am told it
> is some kind of irq routing problem and only Intel can fix it with a BIOS update
> which they do seem interested in addressing. :-( Sure would be nice to be able
> to boot stock Red Hat kernels on this machine.

and doesn't enable (or partially disables). Have you tried booting a RH
kernel with "noapm" to see if ACPI is there and would work for you if APM
were not there?

Do note, I haven't gone back to look at the RH config, I will try it for
grins the next time I reboot.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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