Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:30:09 +1200 From: Tim Matthews <tim.matthews7@gmail.com> To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: laptop doesn't power off Message-ID: <3f1d93450908111530g5fa7c901gb3c85dd166e3734b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3f1d93450908111529q75a95b1o23c69c2aad8c4587@mail.gmail.com> References: <d873d5be0908090439o5ec6fb68p11655638a1412a23@mail.gmail.com> <3f1d93450908090448p3553bfb7te177a3b247bf6cc@mail.gmail.com> <d873d5be0908090537ifb6aa16h353625e9b6bdf082@mail.gmail.com> <d873d5be0908090547t5544bb86g1c3318fbb83c2710@mail.gmail.com> <3f1d93450908092109p63b10f8bnd92d15fbbc943d4f@mail.gmail.com> <d873d5be0908100622h45e017dfx27250fa8dcd04ffa@mail.gmail.com> <3f1d93450908102038g2f972d45yc3ae5cb0ae9de785@mail.gmail.com> <d873d5be0908110257y2eefc04ey7143c1da92b9c195@mail.gmail.com> <20090812010719.W19821@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <3f1d93450908111529q75a95b1o23c69c2aad8c4587@mail.gmail.com>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tim Matthews <tim.matthews7@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:29 AM Subject: Re: laptop doesn't power off To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, b. f. wrote: > > On 8/11/09, Tim Matthews <tim.matthews7@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I have tried different combinations of a lot of things and powering > off not > > > working, everything else working fine with no sign of acpi errors in > logs. > > > acpiconf -s 1 (or any other number) operation not supported. I am now > very > > > sure that my bios is up to date. Is there any thing that can be done > to make > > > freebsd's acpi behave like linux's acpi? > > [..] > > > Also, have you tried FreeBSD 8 to see if that works for you? > > > > In the meantime, you can safely power down your machine by running > > 'shutdown -h now', and then manually cutting power. A bit of a > > nuisance, but not the end of the world. > > That was my suggestion too, but I'm still not clear whether 'shutdown -h > now' works on Tim's Sony, especially when the message Tim referenced, ie > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2007-October/004162.html > said that on that poster's Toshiba M40: > > - shutdown -r: works properly > - shutdown -h: halts the system normally; pressing a key to reboot > works; the power button does not work--it is necessary to remove > the battery to shut the machine off > - shutdown -p: shuts down the operating system, but does not turn > the power off; the power button does not work--it is necessary > to remove the battery to shut the machine off > > If 'shutdown -h now' does work - to the extent that the power button > then works without battery removal - then it's a different scenario. > > cheers, Ian > After a halt I can still hold power button down to turn off my laptop so maybe a little different then. I'm gona try to find time to recompile my kernel. It has become a lot harder to things like that since my screen broke and I mainly use the external vga connector once X has started but that's another story.
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