Jim Bowering wrote:

> Jim Bowering wrote:
>
>> Andreas Janssen wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> The kernel line in grub has both apm=on and acpi=off. That's always
>> worked
>> with 2.4 kernels. APM is in /etc/modutils and /etc/rc*.d (except rcS.d).
>> I'll add it to /etc/modules and see what happens.
>>
> No change. acpi is still overriding apm. Shutdown still goes only to
> "power down" comment. "shutdown -r now" successfully reboots, though.
> (Always has. Only complete shutdown fails.)
>
> One of the comments in /var/log files says that it isn't doing acpi
> because
> my MB is too old (1999), but it still overrides apm. I knew the MB was
> too
> old, which is why I have to use apm. sigh.
>

I was taking the wrong approach. I decided to try acpi=force in grub
instead of acpi=off and now my Asus P5A (1999) MB does a software shutdown
again. I removed all other references to acpi and apm on grub's kernel
2.6.7 line.

jim

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