hardware ( still) not working correctly in Gentoo.

gringo · Advocate Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 3793

Hi folks,

have been playing with gentoo for a year now and have some hardware that still does not work correctly.

My main system does not power off, or at least it powers off when it likes to! All i see, when it does not poweroff, is acpi_call_power_off and then i have to shutdown manually.
Have tried several kernels and diferent confs since 2.4.19 and result is always the same. Mainboard in abit is7-g, NON apm bios, fully acpi compliant. Bios flashed with latest image.
Have also played with the acpid thingy a bit, of course didn´t helped much.

So, any ideas ??

Another annoyning thing is going on with my lappy.
You know, through dpms ( or something called like this) the monitor turns off after a while if you are not using the system. Well, if this happens i cannot recover the X session, even if i can ssh to it.
I know the most obvious would be disabling dpms ( so i have now) but i would like to have this feature as it is quite usefull.

thanx in advance for any tip !

matkare · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 69

ACPI/DPMS:
perhaps you should give 2.6 a try ??! my touchpad suddenly worked by switching to 2.6

ACPI:
I had the same prob with my amd 800 system. Finally I gave up trying acpi and switched back to good old apm and apmd. That worked for me.

Did you try the the "DEBUG" - Option ??

gringo · Advocate Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 3793

Thanx for your lines !

Im already using latest love-sources ( kernel 2.6.4-rc1) and have the same problem. APM is not an option; i tried once and i got in my dmesg " no apm bios found"

Will enable acpi debug... hope that helps to know whats going on.

aja · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:55 pm Post subject:

gringo · Advocate Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 3793

So i did !
I tried vanilha, ac-patched, latest acpi-only patched, and now love-sources. I think im loosing something....

thanx