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Date:      Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:30:06 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Sean C. Farley" <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p
Message-ID:  <20061004132620.P48830@thor.farley.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061004122835.9a9d0c58.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
References:  <20061004122835.9a9d0c58.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>

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On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, 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.

Although it is most probably not related, I had similar problems when I
used an NDIS-wrapped driver on my Dell Latitude C840 with 6-STABLE.  It
was fixed by switching to the ath driver.  I do not recall if the power
button worked or not.  reboots always worked.

Sean
-- 
sean-freebsd@farley.org



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