Re: New user

["The Digital Pioneer" <digitalpioneer@gmail.com>]

Well, what do you want to know?

On 2/24/06, Todd Weaver <todd@m2n.com> wrote:

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:24:19AM -0600, The Digital Pioneer wrote:
> Hello. I just joined this mailing list, and I hope it will be beneficial to
> me.

Welcome.

> My first question is:
>
> I'm having some trouble getting ACPI working. It must be disabled in GRUB's
> boot params or else the boot goes to 'Uncompressing Linux..... OK' and
> freezes up. The only way to do anything is hold in the power button until it
> shuts down, then restarting.

Add "acpi=off" to your boot params so you can get a working system, then I'd read:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/ACPI-HOWTO/

Without knowing more, it *may* be a hardware conflict causing a acpi enabled kernel to lock up.

Todd.

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Thanks,

The Digital Pioneer