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bigbro

Post subject: R5F27 and ACPI support message with an artifact.

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:12 pm

Joined: Sat Dec 24, 2005 11:33 am

Posts: 400

Location: Kitsap Peninsula, Wa., United States

This is my oldest combo. It is a Gigabyte GA-7Zmmh with an Athlon 2200+

When it boots I see an error message about the age of the bios and acpi
From syslog.

Code:

Sep 16 17:01:36 xxxxxxx kernel: ACPI: BIOS age (2001) fails cutoff (2002), acpi=force is required to enable ACPI
Sep 16 17:01:36 xxxxxxx kernel: ACPI: Disabling ACPI support

I am not sure where I would "Force" acpi as it suggests if I even needed to.

I did some searching and found that I have some basic ACPI support on this board.

Since the ACPI is a form of power management I am bringing up a possibly related oddity I have noticed.

When I tell this box to shutdown any number of ways from Powerdown to Halt etc It goes through the motions, but leaves the system at text on the screen and "System Halted" it is still powered at this point and I tap the power button and it turns off.

This did not happen under R5C7 only since I upgraded to R5F27.

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cahlfors

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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:35 am

Joined: Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:38 pm

Posts: 249

Location: Sweden

I have the same problem on a frontend only using a Shuttle computer, which is quite new.

(Old BIOS - really!) Sometimes it does power off itself, though. I can't see a pattern.

/Chris

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jessebs

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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:07 am

Joined: Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:15 am

Posts: 43

Location: College Station, TX

I had the same issue on an old Dell w/ ACPI Support

To fix it I did the following:

As root:

Edit the file /etc/lilo.conf

replace the line

Code:

append="splash=silent apm=power-off nomce quiet "

with

Code:

append="splash=silent acpi=force nomce quiet "

Then (still as root), run the command

Code:

lilo

Restart, and you should be set.

Hope this works for you, too.

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bigbro

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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 10:19 am

Joined: Sat Dec 24, 2005 11:33 am

Posts: 400

Location: Kitsap Peninsula, Wa., United States

Thanks.
I made the chage you suggested but it doesn't seem to have resolved the error message or the Shutdown issue.

Kind of just an annoyance at this point, but I have thought about trying to get both of my SBE boxes to perform shutdowns and wakeups per the built in feature of Knoppmyth. Will need this fixed for that.

Still working on it.

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cahlfors

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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:02 pm

Joined: Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:38 pm

Posts: 249

Location: Sweden

Thanks jessebs!
Works every time!

/Chris

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myth19kirt

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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:59 am

Joined: Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:35 pm

Posts: 89

Location: Detroit, MI

Thanks. dmesg had many "ACPI: Unable to turn cooling device ..."

It caused my backend to be slow, mythweb to crash and made life sad for a while. Editing the lilo to read

Code:

append="nomce quiet screen=800x600 SELINUX_INIT=NO apm=power-off acpi=off"

Fixed my problem.

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