acpi warning at startup

[Søren Hauberg]

Thanks Liz that solved my problems and removed the warning
/Søren

Liz Young skrev:
> 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
>