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  1. 07-09-2005 #1
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    Laptop powers off...how to fix?

    Well, I've never seen a problem quite like this and I've tried searching through the old posts and cannot really come up with anything. I am trying to get debian stable on an HP pavilion labtop...and everything works fine until for some reason when its running after a few minutes of the fan being on it shuts down, just powers itself off. I cannot find anything to control the power options or cpu in the bios...so I'm kind of stuck.
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    Sounds like something going awry with ACPI or APM...do you have any of that configured?
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    Definitely acpi. The bane of Linux laptops.

    edit: Unless your fan may be about to croak.
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    It has to be a Debian/ACPI problem as SuSE 9.3 Pro runs sweet on my Thinkpad T40.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LondoJowo
    It has to be a Debian/ACPI problem as SuSE 9.3 Pro runs sweet on my Thinkpad T40.
    and he's using an HP pavilion laptop
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    Ok, could be a Debian/ACPI/HP problem.
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    so how would I boot with no acpi...can I just do noacpi at the prompt...I'm fairly new to grub, so I'm not sure how that works...I think on lilo I could just do "linux noacpi"?

    Any clues about what I should do?
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    I think you can just type "noacpi: at the grub prompt.
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    ok, I will try this when I get home tonight...damn long ass shift today, thank you so much for your help guys...I'll post back with results, hopefully from within my new laptop
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    Godspeed; May the force be with you; Live Long and Prosper; etc.
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