On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 16:17 -0700, Chris Collins wrote:

Hello,

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:56:04PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:

quoted

This machine/BIOS is rather old?
You should better stay with ACPI switched off.

I agree with what Thomas said. Maybe the bios is too old and can't
support ACPI.

From the dmesg log it seems that the system fails in switch from legacy

mode to ACPI mode.
   > ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0e20)
   > ACPI Error (hwacpi-0142): Hardware did not change modes [20070126]
   > ACPI Error (evxfevnt-0086): Could not transition to ACPI mode
[20070126]
   > ACPI Warning (utxface-0139): AcpiEnable failed [20070126]

Had better confirm whether the ACPI is supported on Windows.
Thanks.

I believe there are no newer updates for this BIOS.

I will try to test this with a Windows installation. 
Is it the case that this BIOS which clearly has
some kind of an ACPI capability should be written off.

How can I test the capabilities, or seek help in 
solving of the kinks or idiosyncrasies of this 
BIOS.  Is Award/Phoenix represented on this forum?
Do they support the work of making ACPI function
on Linux?

Thanks,

--Chris

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