On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 16:17 -0700, Chris Collins wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:56:04PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > > This machine/BIOS is rather old? > > You should better stay with ACPI switched off. I agree with what Thomas said. Maybe the bios is too old and can't support ACPI. >From the dmesg log it seems that the system fails in switch from legacy mode to ACPI mode. > ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0e20) > ACPI Error (hwacpi-0142): Hardware did not change modes [20070126] > ACPI Error (evxfevnt-0086): Could not transition to ACPI mode [20070126] > ACPI Warning (utxface-0139): AcpiEnable failed [20070126] Had better confirm whether the ACPI is supported on Windows. Thanks. > I believe there are no newer updates for this BIOS. > > I will try to test this with a Windows installation. > Is it the case that this BIOS which clearly has > some kind of an ACPI capability should be written off. > > How can I test the capabilities, or seek help in > solving of the kinks or idiosyncrasies of this > BIOS. Is Award/Phoenix represented on this forum? > Do they support the work of making ACPI function > on Linux? > > Thanks, > > --Chris > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
