ACPI Not installed... but it is!

snowinferno · 01-13-2004, 08:57 PM

Running Fedora (naturally) with kernel 2.4.22-1.2140...

I have ACPI and APM both installed. If i specify the parameters acpi=on and apm=on the battery monitor works perfectly. However if i do not specify those parameters Xwindows reports that ACPI is not installed... Anybody know how i can either get it to recognize acpi and apm or make it so that those two parameters get added to the default parameters so that they are ALWAYS run? They are both listed under services and checked to run at startup but its still not detected for some wierd reason.
Any and all help on this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Caeda · 01-13-2004, 09:39 PM

Are you using grub or lilo. Grub, put those options in /boot/grub/menu.lst so its typed in for you. Lilo... find your lilo.conf file and add them in then run lilo again to add the changes.

snowinferno · 01-13-2004, 09:42 PM

Where would i add them to lilo.conf? This is the entry from lilo.conf
"image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2140.nptl
label=Fedora
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2140.nptl.img"

P.S. Forgot to mention... this is on a dual-boot system. Fedora/XP pro

beatupbilly · 01-14-2004, 10:01 PM

Is this on a laptop? I've tried it all on my Dell Inspiron 1100 and Fedora just refuses to work with APM. I think its a fix they are working on for the next update

snowinferno · 01-15-2004, 02:00 AM

yep sure is on a laptop... i guess im just going to have to work with typing in acpi=on apm=on at boot up till a fix comes out...

Caeda · 01-15-2004, 12:43 PM

You know, after someone gave you the "add it to your lilo.conf" you might have used google or the forum search for 5 seconds and looked it up, as it wasnt a very hard problem to fix once you knew you could add it in. You might also have checked the manual for lilo and found the following command.

"append acpi=on"

The append command in mentioned in a heck of a lot of other lilo problem forums.. and isnt that hard to use.