Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 20:58:55 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE hanging problem with ibm thinkpad laptop Message-ID: <20011104205431.U47566-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20011103233250.E93468@johncoop.MSHOME>
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On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
> On 2001.11.03 23:08 Jason Hunt wrote:
> > I have an IBM Thinkpad 560E laptop. I was running a 4.4-STABLE
> > from September, and it was great. I cvsup'd to 4.4-STABLE on
> > November 3rd, and now when I reboot or shutdown, it kills daemons,
> > synch's disks, and shows the uptime. Normally it would either
> > reboot or turn the machine off, or tell you to press and key to
> > reboot and you can turn it off manually. Instead, it hangs and I
> > have to hard-reboot the machine. Any help? The generic kernel
> > did this as well.
> >
> Actually, the behavior you have now is 90% of what is supposed to
> happen. Something was wrong if you weren't seeing the daemons get
> killed, syncing of disks, etc. It looks like the problem is that
> you're getting a shutdown even when you want a reboot. Well, the
> laptop types should be able to suggest some kernel options that might
> get you somewhere there, but it sounds like cycling power at the end of
> the "shutdown" will get you most of what you want. Obviously, since I
> don't have a laptop running FreeBSD, your mileage may vary . . . --
Make sure you have the following in your kernel, to allow the APM
stuff to work correctly:
device apm0
This is disabled in GENERIC, btw.
shutdown -r and shutdown -p should then do the right thing, as
should apm -z and apm -Z.
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net
I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs.
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