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Fred Caro 08-14-2010 06:15 AM

how to disable acpi on command line
 
Thanks for similar. Bios is a good recommendation but will that affect the fan speed?
I know about the acpi=off option, this does not work properly- even on suse. Maybe noapic would work better? Really is there a cover all command line instruction (for all distros) to turn the annoying thing off? Main problem occurs when watching the telly and the screensaver kicks in, with suze it turns the sound off as well, even after you have re-entered the password.

Fred.

GrapefruiTgirl 08-14-2010 06:26 AM

kernel-parameters.txt
 
At first, this sounds like an issue that might be attacked from a "disable the screensaver and any power management" angle. However, here's what turns up regarding acpi when I grep the 'kernel-parameters.txt' file on my 2.6.35 kernel - maybe something here will interest you, and if so, check out your own local version of this file in your kernel source, or Google it, to get the syntax & parameters of the option(s) which interest you:
Code:

root@reactor: grep acpi /usr/src/source/*/Doc*/kernel-parameters.txt | sed 's/^.*://'

        acpi=                [HW,ACPI,X86]
                        See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
        acpi_apic_instance=        [ACPI, IOAPIC]
        acpi_backlight=        [HW,ACPI]
                        acpi_backlight=vendor
                        acpi_backlight=video
                        (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
        acpi.debug_layer=        [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
        acpi.debug_level=        [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
                        Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
                            acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
        acpi_display_output=        [HW,ACPI]
                        acpi_display_output=vendor
                        acpi_display_output=video
        acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_irq_isa=        [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
        acpi_irq_pci=        [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
        acpi_no_auto_ssdt        [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
        acpi_os_name=        [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
        acpi_osi=        [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
                        acpi_osi="string1"        # add string1 -- only one string
                        acpi_osi="!string2"        # remove built-in string2
                        acpi_osi=                # disable all strings
        acpi_pm_good        [X86]
        acpi_sci=        [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
        acpi_serialize        [HW,ACPI] force serialization of AML methods
        acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_sleep=        [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
        acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_enforce_resources=        [ACPI]
                        [ACPI] acpi_pm
        libata.noacpi        [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
                noacpi                [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
        pnpacpi=        [ACPI]
        acpi=                [HW,ACPI,X86]
                        See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
        acpi_apic_instance=        [ACPI, IOAPIC]
        acpi_backlight=        [HW,ACPI]
                        acpi_backlight=vendor
                        acpi_backlight=video
                        (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
        acpi.debug_layer=        [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
        acpi.debug_level=        [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
                        Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
                            acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
        acpi_display_output=        [HW,ACPI]
                        acpi_display_output=vendor
                        acpi_display_output=video
        acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_irq_isa=        [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
        acpi_irq_pci=        [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
        acpi_no_auto_ssdt        [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
        acpi_os_name=        [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
        acpi_osi=        [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
                        acpi_osi="string1"        # add string1 -- only one string
                        acpi_osi="!string2"        # remove built-in string2
                        acpi_osi=                # disable all strings
        acpi_pm_good        [X86]
        acpi_sci=        [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
        acpi_serialize        [HW,ACPI] force serialization of AML methods
        acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_sleep=        [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
        acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_enforce_resources=        [ACPI]
                        [ACPI] acpi_pm
        libata.noacpi        [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
                noacpi                [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
        pnpacpi=        [ACPI]
        acpi=                [HW,ACPI,X86]
                        See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
        acpi_apic_instance=        [ACPI, IOAPIC]
        acpi_backlight=        [HW,ACPI]
                        acpi_backlight=vendor
                        acpi_backlight=video
                        (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
        acpi.debug_layer=        [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
        acpi.debug_level=        [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
                        Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
                            acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
        acpi_display_output=        [HW,ACPI]
                        acpi_display_output=vendor
                        acpi_display_output=video
        acpi_early_pdc_eval        [HW,ACPI] Evaluate processor _PDC methods
        acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_irq_isa=        [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
        acpi_irq_pci=        [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
        acpi_no_auto_ssdt        [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
        acpi_os_name=        [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
        acpi_osi=        [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
                        acpi_osi="string1"        # add string1 -- only one string
                        acpi_osi="!string2"        # remove built-in string2
                        acpi_osi=                # disable all strings
        acpi_pm_good        [X86]
        acpi_sci=        [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
        acpi_serialize        [HW,ACPI] force serialization of AML methods
        acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_sleep=        [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
        acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_enforce_resources=        [ACPI]
                        [ACPI] acpi_pm
        libata.noacpi        [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
                noacpi                [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
        pnpacpi=        [ACPI]
        acpi=                [HW,ACPI,X86]
                        See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
        acpi_apic_instance=        [ACPI, IOAPIC]
        acpi_backlight=        [HW,ACPI]
                        acpi_backlight=vendor
                        acpi_backlight=video
                        (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
        acpi.debug_layer=        [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
        acpi.debug_level=        [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
                        Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
                            acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
        acpi_display_output=        [HW,ACPI]
                        acpi_display_output=vendor
                        acpi_display_output=video
        acpi_early_pdc_eval        [HW,ACPI] Evaluate processor _PDC methods
        acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_irq_isa=        [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
        acpi_irq_pci=        [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
        acpi_no_auto_ssdt        [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
        acpi_os_name=        [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
        acpi_osi=        [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
                        acpi_osi="string1"        # add string1 -- only one string
                        acpi_osi="!string2"        # remove built-in string2
                        acpi_osi=                # disable all strings
        acpi_pm_good        [X86]
        acpi_sci=        [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
        acpi_serialize        [HW,ACPI] force serialization of AML methods
        acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_sleep=        [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
        acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_enforce_resources=        [ACPI]
                        [ACPI] acpi_pm
        libata.noacpi        [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
                noacpi                [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
        pnpacpi=        [ACPI]
        acpi=                [HW,ACPI,X86]
                        See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
        acpi_apic_instance=        [ACPI, IOAPIC]
        acpi_backlight=        [HW,ACPI]
                        acpi_backlight=vendor
                        acpi_backlight=video
                        (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
        acpi.debug_layer=        [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
        acpi.debug_level=        [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
                        Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
                            acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
        acpi_display_output=        [HW,ACPI]
                        acpi_display_output=vendor
                        acpi_display_output=video
        acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_irq_isa=        [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
        acpi_irq_pci=        [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
        acpi_no_auto_ssdt        [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
        acpi_os_name=        [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
        acpi_osi=        [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
                        acpi_osi="string1"        # add string1 -- only one string
                        acpi_osi="!string2"        # remove built-in string2
                        acpi_osi=                # disable all strings
        acpi_pm_good        [X86]
        acpi_sci=        [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
        acpi_serialize        [HW,ACPI] force serialization of AML methods
        acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_sleep=        [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
        acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_enforce_resources=        [ACPI]
                        [ACPI] acpi_pm
        libata.noacpi        [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
                noacpi                [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
        pnpacpi=        [ACPI]
        acpi=                [HW,ACPI,X86]
                        See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
        acpi_apic_instance=        [ACPI, IOAPIC]
        acpi_backlight=        [HW,ACPI]
                        acpi_backlight=vendor
                        acpi_backlight=video
                        (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
        acpi.debug_layer=        [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
        acpi.debug_level=        [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
                        Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
                            acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
                            acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
        acpi_display_output=        [HW,ACPI]
                        acpi_display_output=vendor
                        acpi_display_output=video
        acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_irq_isa=        [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
        acpi_irq_pci=        [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
        acpi_no_auto_ssdt        [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
        acpi_os_name=        [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
        acpi_osi=        [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
                        acpi_osi="string1"        # add string1 -- only one string
                        acpi_osi="!string2"        # remove built-in string2
                        acpi_osi=                # disable all strings
        acpi_pm_good        [X86]
        acpi_sci=        [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
        acpi_serialize        [HW,ACPI] force serialization of AML methods
        acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_sleep=        [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
        acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
        acpi_enforce_resources=        [ACPI]
                        [ACPI] acpi_pm
        libata.noacpi        [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
                noacpi                [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
        pnpacpi=        [ACPI]



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