Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: shutdown fails with 2.6.9-rc3 | From | Charles Johnston <> | Date | Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:06:42 -0600 |
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On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 13:29, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > Hi, all. > > I just upgraded to 2.6.9-rc3 from a 2.6.8.1 based kernel, and my laptop > is no longer powering off. Sometimes, the screen powers off, sometimes > it sits there saying "Power Down", but in either case, the power LED is > still lit, and a hard power-off is necessary. This did not happen with > 2.6.8.1. I tried booting with acpi=off (as there was a report of > shutdown weirdness due to acpi on 2.6.9-rc1), but that did not help. > > I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop, with a Pentium-M 1500, and Centrino > chipset. Attached is lscpi, cpuinfo, /proc/modules, and config for the > 2.6.9-rc3 kernel that fails. > > Linux version 2.6.9-rc3 (dang@athena) (gcc version 3.4.2 (Gentoo Linux > 3.4.2-r2, ssp-3.4.1-1, pie-8.7.6.5)) #1 Wed Oct 6 15:02:35 EDT 2004 > > Daniel
I have the same machine and experienced the same problem starting with 2.6.9-rc1.
The solution is to disable APIC and IO-APIC support. The reason why it now has problems is the black-list with the Inspiron on it was removed.
Charles
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