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Subject: Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p
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Bill Moran wrote:
> A reboot causes the OS to halt, but the hardware just sits there on the
> shutdown screen.
>
> A shutdown -p does the same.
>
> Other ACPIish stuff seems to work as advertised.  (i.e. hitting the power
> button cleanly shuts down the OS)
>
> I'm posting this to stable@, but the same behaviour occurs with FreeBSD
> 6.1-RELEASE as well.
>   
Does setting "hw.acpi.handle_reboot" to 1 via sysctl help?  If set, this 
variable will use ACPI to perform the reboot action via the reset 
register instead of using the keyboard controller or a triple fault to 
reboot.

Guy

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