Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:06:35 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: ACPI "Soft-off" power button only rebooting system, not powering off |
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On Wed 2008-09-17 08:33:50, Andrew Paprocki wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote: > > On Wed 2008-09-17 00:50:03, Andrew Paprocki wrote: > >> I have an AMD / Award BIOS based system which does not properly shut > >> off when I hold down the power button for 4 seconds. The BIOS is > >> configured to have "Soft-off" set to "Delay for 4 seconds" which is > >> supposed to power the machine off if the button is held that long. > >> > >> I first thought this could be a BIOS bug, but this *only* appears to > >> happen while Linux is running. If the computer is running WinXP, it > > > > Well, so the BIOS is broken. 4second hold should power down the > > machine regardless of the operating system. > > Yes, I agree.. I just find it strange that it works on the BIOS screen > as well as in GRUB, but as soon as Linux boots, it no longer works. > Since it works under WinXP, there must be some way to get it to work > properly from the OS side even it if means working around the bug > somehow.
Try noapic/nolapic/nosmp etc... and ask your vendor to fix the bios ;-).
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