Ok, well if the system is that old it's very unlikely to have acpi, so you may want to have a look at your kernel config and re-compile with the correct apm options enabled - you need to be aware that stock kernels don't seem to enable apm and acpi, I think this is because they can make some systems crash that don't have them. Hth Toby ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 6:55 PM Subject: speakers and shutdown that used to work and now don't work as well >I really couldn't think of a better subject line. I upgraded a gateway 400 >MHZ > system to debian sarge speakup kernel 2.4.27. So far, these are the two > things > I've noticed. Sound works but only with headphones and another pair of > speakers > I have. Sound does not come out of the speakers I used to use when this > system > was windows. The speakers are the kind with a sub-woofer and I believe > the > cable connecting them to the speaker jack is the digital cable. They > didn't > work on my other linux or windows system either but I figured it was the > type of > soundcard. What's going on here? Is this some gateway propriotary thing > going > on here? The sound under Windows was registered as a creative > soundblaster 64 > or 128D depending on which drivers I was using. Under Linux it reagisters > as > the ensonic S1371 chipset. I figure that is correct sinse sound with > other > speakers works. I'm using os sound modules. My second annoyance is the > computer doesn't fully shut off when I shutdown. It used to do that > almost all > the time but not always. I've shut the system down twice, and so far, it > is > consistant. Power to the drives powers down, but you can still ear the > fans > wering and you really have to hold in that power button to get the system > off. > One thing I noticed from the bootup messages is the system apic couldn't > be > enabled because the bios was dectected as pre-1998. However, Linux was > able to > enable it's own apic and I did technically purchase the system in 1999. > I > don't know if I'm using apm or acbi. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
