From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 4 17:54:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3650B16A417 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:54:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from alnrmhc13.comcast.net (alnrmhc13.comcast.net [206.18.177.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6BFF43D4C for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:54:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from gimpy (c-24-118-173-219.hsd1.mn.comcast.net[24.118.173.219]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20061004175428b1300l6fv9e>; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:54:28 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:54:26 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <20061004122835.9a9d0c58.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20061004125606.079f3c09.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <4523F279.4070707@palisadesys.com> In-Reply-To: <4523F279.4070707@palisadesys.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610041254.26900.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Guy Helmer , Bill Moran Subject: Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:54:38 -0000 On Wednesday 04 October 2006 12:42, Guy Helmer wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Guy Helmer : > >> 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