ACPI=FORCE

[Charlie Lewis]

On Sunday 24 April 2005 10:23 am, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > I'm not sure which version of the 2.6 kernel series it was changed in,
> > but it seems on a couple of the earlier ones, the
> >
> > CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR:                                             │

> >       │ │ "acpi=force" can be used to override this mechanism.           

> Thanks Charlie, that would explain why USB hotplug work in Hoary for me
> but not in Warty. However I tried adding the acpi=force option in GRUB,
> but it doesn't seem to work.
> Here is my kernel line in  menu.lst, did I do something wrong ?
>
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-386 root=/dev/hda2 ro quiet splash
> acpi=force vga=773
>
>
> --
> Vince

Looks like you're doing it right to me, but like I said, I'm not sure of all 
the acpi stuff and when the changes were made. Googling I get a lot of acpi 
traffic around the 2.6.8 kernel although I see nothing listed as a specific 
pin pointable problem or generalized bug. I see bug reports for various 
functions under acpi.  It looks to me like most people back then were just 
running acpi=off to get around what they were describing as "pesky acpi" 
problems. ;-)

I didn't mess with the 2.6.8 very much 'cause I couldn't burn a cd as regular 
user. When I realized that, instead of all the garbage of patching etc.  I 
dropped back to 2.6.7 and stayed with it except for a couple of days I ran a 
Hoary preview and then up to 2.6.10-5. I think the Hoary preview had a 
2.6.10-3 on it and I also tried a 2.6.11 custom but ran into some more 
console blanking and problems getting my nvidia stuff all together.   

CC