how do I disable acpi from go??

stillspiraling · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 74

I need to do this:

When running a 2.4 kernel, start running with acpi disabled and apm in your kernel. That was the only thing needed for my 410c to run gentoo. In 2.6, with an updated bios, everything works with acpi.

In order to sort out some heat problems with my n410c. Does the above method mean doing it at kernel compilation, or somehow at the beginning of the boot? Like in specifying which kernel the LiveCD boots with???

My laptop just plain shuts down on the first emerge sync to get portage

I think I'm going to try and use one of the portage snapshots now...

TIA!

msalerno · Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 1:45 pm Post subject:

You could disable the options and recompile the kernel. You could also disable it at boot time, of course, this all depends on your boot loader.

acpi=off

stillspiraling · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 74

Well I tried that command and it couldn't find it on 2004.1 at boot. That is exactly what I need to do though

gospleOfLinux · Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 1:49 pm Post subject:

if acpi/apm is a problem there is an option to disable it on the liveCD. If there is any question as to whether it is causing things to not work right, use the noacpi option.

As to taking it out of the kernel, you can keep it in and configure it. I have never bothered to do so, but it can be done. www.tldp.org

In your situation, I would get a working kernel without acpi/apm then compile another kernel with it, then configure acpi/apm to run with your hardware under that kernel. I have several different kernels in my bootloader so that I can fall back on a simpler kernel if there is a problem.
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stillspiraling · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 74

well at the beginning this time I did

gospleOfLinux · Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 1:58 pm Post subject:

That's right... I kinda forgot that the acpi thing is a OPTION not another kernel. You selected "gentoo" as your kernel and "acpi=off" as an option. That should be good.
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