ACPI support

col · Guest

I have compiled in kernel ACPI support & it is enabled in my bios but when I start acpid it says "ACPI support has not been compiled into the kernel"

also power down after shutdown doesnt work....what am I doing wrong ?

taskara · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 4:30 am Post subject:

it may not support your mainboard, I find the support is not very good yet for acpi

u may also want to compile APM into your kernel, they can run co-currently

col · Guest

but I have tried other linux distro's on which it works with my motherbaord ? I am using the XFS kernel source.

taskara · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 7:39 am Post subject:

gentoo is not like other distros, other distros are prepackaged bundles of support for everything, each with different packages and different kernels.

so you don't know what it was that turned your pc off.

acpi is new to linux and not yet perfected, I'm suggesting you try apm (advanced power management) to see if that works for you.

what options did you select for acpi ? I do not get the acpi error, but then again my pc doesn't turn off either.

hanno · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 15

Try the kernel-patch at
http://www.sf.net/projects/acpi/
It gives your kernel much better acpi-support.