MDK 10.1 (OE) on Compaq Presario 1900

[alloneword]

Hello all.

 

I have recently installed 10.1 on to a compaq presario 1900-XL laptop.

 

The problem I have is I can't get a battery monitor to work, or for the

laptop to shut down properly. After getting to the end of the shut down

process, it stops on Power Down, and I have to hold the power down and

then it will turn off.

 

In dmesg these lines come up:

 

Compaq 12XL125 machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.

....

apm: BIOS not found.

 

In the bios I have made sure that power management stuff has been switched

on.

 

When I run apm in a console I get this:

No APM support in kernel.

 

I am using the default 2.6.8 kernel.

 

Can any one please help me get apm to run, thank-you.

[alloneword]

I tried installing acpi, this is what happened:

 

I installed ACPI, edit lilo.conf and added:

append="acpi=force"

to the entry for 'linux'

 

Booted up, and checked if acpi was running, it wasn't.

 

If i type acpi in a console I get this:

 

No ACPI support in kernel, or incorrect acpi_path ("/proc/acpi").

 

This is at the top of dmesg:

<snip>

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable) BIOS-e820:

000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820:

00000000000eb000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820:

0000000000100000 - 000000000bff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000bff0000

- 000000000bfffc00 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000000bfffc00 -

000000000c000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 -

0000000100000000 (reserved)

0MB HIGHMEM available.

191MB LOWMEM available.

On node 0 totalpages: 49136

DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1

Normal zone: 45040 pages, LIFO batch:10 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO

batch:1

DMI 2.3 present.

ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6f80

ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x0bffbe39

ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ CPQB18F 0x06040000 PTL 0x000f4240) @ 0x0bffbe65

ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x0bfffbd9

ACPI: DSDT (v001 PTLTD DSDT 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000

ACPI: Vendor "PTLTD " System " DSDT " Revision 0x6040000 has a known

ACPI BIOS problem. ACPI: Reason: Multiple problems. This is a

non-recoverable error ACPI: BIOS listed in blacklist, disabling ACPI

support Built 1 zonelists

Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Could not enable APIC!

</snip>

 

I am thinking acpi isn't going to work. The laptop is only used at home,

and doesn't have to have complete functionality, just turn the thing off

when it is shut down.

 

Ohhh well, I don't think this is going to work. Despite some sites I've

googled (searching for compaq 1900) saying it worked fine for them.

 

Thanks.