From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Mar 8 14:39:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from sloth.cs.unm.edu (sloth.cs.unm.edu [198.59.151.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8239B14EE1; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:38:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from colinj@cs.unm.edu) Received: from waimea.cs.unm.edu ([198.83.92.103]) by sloth.cs.unm.edu with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 10K8fK-0002m4-00; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:38:26 -0700 Received: from localhost (colinj@localhost) by waimea.cs.unm.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA89934; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:38:17 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from colinj@cs.unm.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: waimea.cs.unm.edu: colinj owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:38:17 -0700 From: Colin Eric Johnson To: Patrick Seal Cc: Greg Lehey , David Shanes , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop Locks up on reboot In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm having the same problem with my Lattitude (see the similar thread on freebsd-stable) and I've traced it to the ppc and ppbus drivers. If I compile these into the kernel then I get the behavior you are describing. If I build a kernel w/o them then I don't get that behavior. I'm also tracking -STABLE. As to a solution, I don't know, but I would love to hear one. On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Patrick Seal wrote: > > > > I don't have one myself, but a contact at Dell suggests holding down > > the power button for more than 8 seconds. > > Thanks Greg, but it didn't work for me. Can anyone tell me what could > have changed since 3.0R that would cause this reboot problem to surface? > > Thanks, > > ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ > Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make > | really crappy operating systems." > Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds > hosting and Design > > http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org > > > On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > On Monday, 8 March 1999 at 11:32:16 -0800, David Shanes wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday, March 02, 1999 2:37 PM, Patrick Seal wrote: > > >> My Dell Latitude CPi locks up during: > > >> > > >> # reboot (which includes Ctrl-Alt-Del) > > >> # shutdown -h now (and pressing any key to reboot) > > >> > > >> It's just an annoyance, but is therefore annoying. The only way to get it > > >> to turn of is to take the battery out while it's still running (not a > > >> pleasant thing to think about). > > >> > > >> I can still just `shutdown -h now` and turn off the power, but if I > > >> accidently push a button the damn thing locks up! > > >> > > >> I can't exactly remember when this started happening, the laptop has > > >> always been running at least 3.0-RELEASE. It's now tracking stable. > > > > > > I also have a Dell Latitude CPi. I started to install a couple of times > > > (3.1R) but had to quit due to some problems that I am trying to resolve. > > > When I try to quit sysinstall, the screen just locks up. The only recourse > > > that I have is to pull my battery. > > > > I don't have one myself, but a contact at Dell suggests holding down > > the power button for more than 8 seconds. > > > > Greg > > -- > > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > > Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ The scum also rises. -- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message