From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roman Jordan Subject: Re: question about kernel 2.6.1 Date: 11 Feb 2004 21:35:39 +0100 Sender: linux-laptop-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1076531738.2947.2.camel@darkstar> References: <1075925263.2952.29.camel@darkstar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: bill davidsen Cc: Linux_Laptop Thanks a lot for your help. I have installed the kernel 2.6.2, use PM (instead of ACPI) and i use the real mode bios jump for shutdown. And now the things are working. At the moment not in all cases, but i hope it will be better. Greetings, Roman Jordan Am Mit, 2004-02-11 um 14.31 schrieb bill davidsen: > In article <1075925263.2952.29.camel@darkstar>, > Roman Jordan wrote: > | Hi, > | i have a sony PCG-FX505 laptop (ati graphic and 1,2 GHz mobile athlon). > | I use fedora linux version 1.0. The system runs o.k. > | After the installation of the kernel version 2.6.1 i can't shutdown the > | system. The commands 'halt' and 'poweroff' doesn't switch off the > | device. > | The display is black, but the LEDs are still on. > | > | Any suggestions where to start solving? > > 1 - try 2.6.2 > 2 - try APM instead of ACPI > 3 - try the patch posted here recently > 4 - google for the "laptop patch" > 5 - try the absolute latest ACPI patch (URL recently posted) > 6 - stay with 2.4 unless there's something you really need in 2.6 > 7 - APM has a "use real mode shutdown" option, try that > 8 - reboot into 2.4 and then shutdown > > With all of the 2.6 features backported to 2.4 in Redhat kernels, the > benefits are fairly small for most people.