Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:54:26 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com>, Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Subject: Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p Message-ID: <200610041254.26900.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <4523F279.4070707@palisadesys.com> References: <20061004122835.9a9d0c58.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20061004125606.079f3c09.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <4523F279.4070707@palisadesys.com>
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On Wednesday 04 October 2006 12:42, Guy Helmer wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com>: > >> 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. > > > > I manually changed that setting and the behaviour did not change. > > Does the setting need set before the kernel boots? > > The value of that parameter is checked at runtime so you should be > able to set it while the system is running. Do you get an "ACPI > reset failed" message on the console? > > Guy For what it's worth I have 6.1-R on a 1950 and reboot works just fine. Haven't tried the shutdown -p command. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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