Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:46:43 -0500 From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p Message-ID: <4523E573.4000203@palisadesys.com> In-Reply-To: <20061004122835.9a9d0c58.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <20061004122835.9a9d0c58.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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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 -- Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Chief System Architect Palisade Systems, Inc.
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