Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 06 Apr 2003 20:20:37 +0200 | From | Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <> | Subject | Re: poweroff problem |
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Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > On 06 Apr 2003 16:14:42 +0100 Alan Cox (AC) wrote: > > AC> Different options for reboot (16 v 32) perhaps, might even be something is > AC> random as which way the carry flag is when the bios code is called. If you > AC> want to be sure for the APM case stick a printk just before we drop into > AC> the BIOS and make sure we oops after and not before.. > > I just tried with APM; machine powers down without problems. It's ACPI which > doesn't power down. Last thing it prints during powerdown is: > > hwsleep-0178 [-24] Acpi_enter_sleep_state: Entering S5 > > I can't find any specific A7V workarounds in 2.5.66 ACPI code, so I guess > the ACPI code in 2.4 isn't up-to-date. > > The original poster's problem is then probably indeed related to a buggy BIOS > if it doesn't even powerdown with APM.
The original poster said his kernel was 2.4.2-2, which looks like a RedHat one and could have contained ACPI...
Regards, Carl-Daniel
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