Re: 2.6.0-test4 - lost ACPI

[Andrew Morton]

Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I am using ACPI for few years now. As far as I can see, on my
>  machine it is only usfeul for binding events to Power button (like
>  running fbdump) and for powering off. I'm also experimenting
>  with swsusp, which I run by /proc/acpi/sleep.
> 
>  2.6.0-test4 has a surprise for me:

me too.

>  ACPI disabled because your bios is from 00 and too old
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

One of my trusty-but-old testboxes does exactly the same thing.  It's just
the ACPI guys running away from broken BIOSes I think ;)

Add "acpi=force" to your kernel boot command line and everything should work
as before.

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