From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 27 00:38:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD3816A401 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:38:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jvender@owensboro.net) Received: from zoot.cinergycom.net (zoot.cinergycom.net [216.135.3.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A4413C489 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:38:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jvender@owensboro.net) Received: from evvlinlwt-nas-03-s27.cinergycom.net ([216.135.25.27]) by zoot.cinergycom.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1HAbaX-0005Vk-J6; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:38:38 -0600 From: Joe Vender To: Chuck Swiger Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:36:14 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200701261415.11046.jvender@owensboro.net> <200701261804.38744.jvender@owensboro.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701261836.14983.jvender@owensboro.net> X-CCC-Authenticated: jvender@owensboro.net zoot.cinergycom.net 216.135.25.27 20070127003838Z 34e97b318a8ccc7cfa4f6edacc37bd50 X-CCC-Cleanmail-Virus-Signature: cbde873fa403a5882004441b288588ed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 & 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:38:38 -0000 On Friday 26 January 2007 18:18, Chuck Swiger wrote: > The GUI commands within KDE are going to invoke the command-line > shutdown command with the appropriate arguments. What may be going > on is that your old hardware only supports the older form of power > management/shutdown mechanism, called APM, rather than the newer > APCI. You might find that reading "man 4 apm" and "man acpi" will > give you some hints on debugging the issue. It might help to try > updating your machines BIOS, or to recompile a kernel with ACPI > disabled but the older APM enabled, and see whether that gets you > somewhere. > There is no update to my machine BIOS as far as I know. What I have now is the last software that was released for it, and that was years ago. I have actually wondered if I should disable ACPI and enable APM in a new kernel build. I'll give it a try if I can get the real issue, which is the spontaneous reboots freezes, solved. > The fact that you can shutdown within Linux suggests that your > hardware does have the capability, so it's just a matter of figuring > out what's different. Note that you might find that trying to run > FreeBSD 4.11 to be informative, as the defaults for that older > version might correspond with your hardware better, although, 4.11 is > at the end of it's supported lifespan... I've been seriously thinking about getting a copy of the legacy FBSD 5.5 that's on the website. Maybe there isn't a difference between it and the 6.2 as far as this powerdown issue is concerned.