From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 26 23:02:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAD101065670 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:02:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerry@marles.org) Received: from mailforwards.extendcp.co.uk (mailforwards.extendcp.co.uk [79.170.40.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C87B8FC22 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:02:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from marles.demon.co.uk ([83.104.58.197] helo=[192.168.1.150]) by mailforwards.extendcp.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) id 1NDnLv-0002T0-UT; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:02:20 +0000 From: Jerry Marles To: Jung-uk Kim In-Reply-To: <200911241309.30193.jkim@FreeBSD.org> References: <1257676862.3860.14.camel@lenny.internal> <200911241309.30193.jkim@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:02:04 +0000 Message-Id: <1259276524.5208.55.camel@lenny.internal> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HP Pavillion does not power off X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:02:22 -0000 On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 13:09 -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Sunday 08 November 2009 05:41 am, Jerry Marles wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a HP Pavillion desktop PC model g3001.uk. The problem I have > > is that halt -p does not power it off. The light on the power > > button goes off but I can hear that it is still running. If I hold > > down the power button for a few seconds the power can be heard to > > go off but then it boots right back up again. Windows and Linux can > > power it off successfully. > > I have a hunch that your SSDT is broken. In fact, it looks little > unusual. Have you tried to update your BIOS? You seem to have two > year old BIOS and it claims it only complies with ACPI 1.0, which has > been dead for many years. :-) > > BTW, 'holding down power button for a few seconds' performs emergency > shutdown sequence, which is usually done without ACPI intervention. > > Jung-uk Kim That sounded like a reasonable idea so I checked and found that there is a more recent bios available. I downloaded it and attempted to install it and it said that it would not install because I am not running Vista. I scrapped Vista shortly after buying the PC for obvious reasons. I got the PC cheap because it only had 512Mb of memory and Vista, Not a good combination but not a problem to me because I did not intend to use Vista. So I thought I would restore the PC using the recovery DVD that I purchased for just these sort of circumstances. I took it out of the sealed envelope that it came in and tried to boot from it for the first time. It ran part way through and failed with a hex code but no error message of any use. I expected it to partition and format my primary disk but it also did the same to the disk that I had added with Linux and FreeBSD on which struck me as excessively destructive. So it totally wiped out my PC and still has not given me Vista to enable me to install the bios update. Fortunately I have not lost anything of any importance because I keep all that on a separate FreeBSD server. My point is that if Windows, Linux and Solaris can work work quite happily on this bios as it stands then the problemn lies in FreeBSD and that is what I would like to solve because that it the operating system that I would choose to run if only it could power off my PC. Otherwise Debian seems like the best OS for a desktop PC. Regards Jerry