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#1 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 06:29 AM

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?
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#2 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 06:29 AM

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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#3 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 06:29 AM

Jim Bowering 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?

In addition to acpi=off, have you tried putting in apm=on ?

#4 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 06:29 AM

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.

--
OS squared: open software times open standards.

#5 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 06:29 AM

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.

--
OS squared: open software times open standards.

#6 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 06:30 AM

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

--
OS squared: open software times open standards.

#7 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 06:30 AM

Jim Bowering wrote:

> 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
>

Glad to hear it worked out. I have never had to use the force option to get
this to work in the past.

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