From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: When I installed fedora test2 I noticed that acpi was disabled because my bios is older than 1999. The message said to use acpi=force and it might work. Guess what it works great. I have a tyan tiger 100 (S1832) motherboard in case there is some sort database which tracks this information. Jason Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install fedora test 2 2. acpi is disabled by default 3. due to my bios being older than 1999 Actual Results: the pc does not turn off Expected Results: acpi should be enabled for this motherboard Additional info:
please attach the output of dmidecode
Not a problem. Can you please tell me how to get the output you are looking for?
as root, run 'dmidecode > output' and attach the 'output' file. That simple 8-)
Created attachment 94845 [details] output of dmidecode Here is the output you requested.
May I request a status update on this?
We've got not no current plans to change the cutoff date, or to create a list of exceptions to it, but if you'd like to put in a vote, here's the place to do it: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1307