[Gllug] [OT] Hardware problem

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Wed, March 24, 2010 12:18 am, Nix wrote:
> On 23 Mar 2010, Adrian McMenamin said:
>> Second was acpi=off which worked
>
> ACPI really really should work on a modern board: with it off a lot of
> things won't work, from temperature regulation and the power button to
> (on some boards) even things like CD-ROM ejecting and the sound card (!)
>
> Maybe a BIOS upgrade is in order?

It appears to be only an issue with the old (amd64) kernel the Ubuntu 9.10
install CD used. Using the up to date kernel with acpi seems to work fine.


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