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Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification provides an open standard for device configuration and power management by the operating system.

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How tofind the kernel driver name for the pcie controller in a running linux system booted from uefi/acpi?

I have an Ampere ARMv8 server running Ubuntu 20.04. I want to find out the kernel driver used for the PCIe controllers. How should I do? My purpose is to prove a hypothesis that for a server (which ...
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AER error on ROMED8-2T board with m.2 NVMe disks - plausible? How to fix it?

Recently I added two PCIe 4.0 NVMe m.2 disks to a system (AMD Epyc 7402P on a ROMED8-2T board). Since then I receive warnings telling me that there were correctable AER errors on the physical layer. ...
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How can I get my CPU to run at maximum speed by circumventing CPU scaling? [closed]

I am running CentOS 7 (7.9.2009) (kernel 3.10.0-1160.49.1.el7.x86_64) on a rather old laptop (Lenove T61) with a dual core CPU (Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz). The driver for CPU scaling ...
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What could prevent hdd hot-swap in linux ahci?

I'm tearing my hair out over this issue. I wanted to add a hotswap bay to my homeserver to easily add and remove HDD such as to easily rotate off-site backups. The mainboard in question is an Asrock ...
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Can you force graceful shutdown of a locked Windows Server 2003? [closed]

I have a (physical) Server with Windows Server 2003 which is currently locked by the Administrator account and no one has the password. It should be straightforward to reset the password using one of ...
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Which source of sensor readings are most prefered? IPMI, ACPI, or from sensor chip itself?

When monitoring systems for their temperature, and fan speeds, what source of sensor readings is most preferred? I can get all the motherboard readings from both, IPMI and directly from the Winbond ...
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ACPI Error: AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index (0x000000006) is beyond end of object (length 0x6) (20181213/exoparg2-396)

I'm strugglin to install any linux distro in a new Samsung Odyssey machine (NP800G5H-XT2BR) with success. After installation of any distro (ubuntu, fedora, debian), the computer: Freezes on Login ...
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Constant ACPI errors in /var/log/messages on Centos 6.10

/var/log/messages is full of this, occurring every second. I can see this has been going on for at least 4 days but any older logs have been purged. Maybe it's always been like this. Jul 8 04:07:...
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Source for ACPI Power State: soft-off

We suffer from unpredictable server shutdowns (Fujitsu, 2k8 R2). The only unusual message in the logs are: 2018/06/29 13:14:13 [03006A] ACPI Power State: soft-off (S5 - by override) (INFO) CSS: no ...
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watchdog watchdog0 watchdog did not stop

I have a computer that always has issues restarting/shutting down. I've installed many Linux distributions on it, including Debian 9 and VMware Photon OS, and I always have the same issue. When I ...
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How to Restart Centos 7 KVM Host safely without corrupting guest VMs/data?

I want to have a KVM virtualized server with few VMs (with different Guest OSs) in production. Now when I want to install kernel/package updates for the host machine, how to restart the hypervisor ...
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ACPI shutdown does not always work on a Windows Server virtual machine

With virtualbox, I use VBoxManage controlvm "$VMNAME" acpipowerbutton to shut down a virtual server when the host is shutting down. This works well when I test, but not in real world cases (i.e. when ...
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Shut down windows server 2012R2 KVM VM

Question: Does anyone know how I can get the Windows 2012R2 virtual machines to shutdown when sent the signal by the cluster resource manager? Background: I am running Windows 2012R2 servers as ...
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syslog full of APCI messages

I've got a Centos 7.2 desktop that is spamming the syslog server and also filling it's /var/log partition with constant messages : kernel: ACPI: _SB_.PWRB: ACPI_NOTIFY_DEVICE_WAKE event Can I ...
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Do I need acpid daemon in virtualization guest?

I get VPS with KVM virtualisation (server for hosting services). I remove most of desktop services (like dbus, consolekit, xorg) because of security and stability concern. Guest run on virtualised ...
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