Is acpi needed for Desktop computers?

[OOzy Pal]

On 5/20/06, Andrew Zajac <arzajac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 5/19/06, OOzy Pal <oozypal at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ahh, unfortunately, it does not. When, I shutdown my computer, it
> > cycles though the shutdown sequence. Then, I hear a click inside the
> > box. The monitor goes off but there still power to the fans, CDROMs,
> > etc. I could still hear the fan running.
> >
>
> You can also try
> acpi=force
> to see if the acpi modules which were previously being loaded are not being
> loaded anymore.  I dunno.  Can you boot the older kernel and see what
> modules get loaded and then compare with the Dapper kernel?  Look in dmesg
>
> run
> dmesg
> from a terminal.
>
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I also tried acpi=force and no help

I notice that my APM is disabled. Why? How can I enable it?

oozy at ubuntu:~$ dmesg|grep acpi
[4294667.296000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[4294667.296000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
[4294667.296000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
[4294667.296000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
[4294674.949000] ata_acpi_push_id: skipping for PATA mode
[4294675.256000] ata_acpi_push_id: skipping for PATA mode
[4294675.411000] ata_acpi_push_id: skipping for PATA mode
[4294689.271000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[4294689.291000] pcc_acpi: loading...
[4294996.949000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
oozy at ubuntu:~$ dmesg|grep apm
[4294692.954000] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[4294692.954000] apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.



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OOzy
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