[ltp] Fedora Core 3 ACPI Strongarm

Eben King linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:47:40 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Chris Schumann wrote:

> OK, I installed Fedora Core 3 on my 600X last night. When it boots, it 
> proclaims that my BIOS is too old to support ACPI, even though it works 
> very well with Windows XP, thanks.

Check /var/log/messages for messages about inability to locate a module.  
Could be modules.conf needs to be adjusted.  I don't _remember_ any 
modifications, but you never know...

> I just have to edit my grub config file, right?

Depends where it's failing, you might have to add 'ACPI=on' or some such 
to your kernel command line.

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