Helo

Jim Bowering (<iambat@otvcablelandot.net>) wrote:

> I just installed MEPIS-Debian, using the 2.6.7 kernel. Now during
> boot there's a notice that "APM is being overriden by ACPI." That's
> okay, but now I can't get a software shutdown. It stops and says,
> "Power down."
>
> With APM shutdown works perfectly, so I want to disable ACPI. But
> putting acpi=off on the kernel line in grub doesn't do it and I can't
> find anything that looks like acpi in init.d or any of the rc*.ds.
> I'm out of places to look, so can anyone tell me how to disable acpi?

Try to use acpi=off to switch off acpi, and add apm to /etc/modules, or
load it using modprobe. Probably, unlike ACPI, which is compiled into
the kernel, the apm driver is compiled as a module that needs to be
loaded.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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