Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:05:32 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p Message-ID: <20061004140532.9d2a67d1.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <4523F279.4070707@palisadesys.com> References: <20061004122835.9a9d0c58.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <4523E573.4000203@palisadesys.com> <20061004125606.079f3c09.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <4523F279.4070707@palisadesys.com>
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In response to Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com>: > 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? No. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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