acpi warning at startup

[Liz Young]

Hi,

On Mon January 17 2005 05:38 am, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> I assume this means that acpi doesn't work, which is fine since it
> never has worked on this laptop (an old IBM ThinkPad 240).
>
> I can live with the warning, but during boot up acpi gets activated
> anyway and then apm doesn't get started. So now my battery applet
> doesn't work...
>
> Any thoughts?

I don't have a single machine where acpi works yet.  Too old hardware, I 
guess.

You can disable acpi at boot time by editing the /boot/grub/menu.list 
file.  Look for this section:

## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specifiv kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
# kopt=root=/dev/hdb1 ro acpi=off

Add the "acpi=off" part to the kopt line.  Don't remove the #.

I think apmd is loaded by default, so after you reboot the battery 
applet should be available.

-Liz