laptop:/home/rick# dmesg | grep acpi You can enable it with acpi=force Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro force=acpi pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001 shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001 acpi: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_unregister_performance acpi: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_register_performance acpi: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_unregister_performance acpi: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_register_performance