Re: Problem with acpi_power_off

[Fred Labrosse <ffl-4CLdheC3Iye1Qrn1Bg8BZw@public.gmane.org>]

hgfelger-9nAOAgdJVo4b1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org writes:
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 > Salut Charles,
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 > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Charles Kendricks wrote:
 > > I am in charge of several linux 2.6.4 systems with Dragon P4I875P 
 > > motherboards.  I am relatively new to acpi so my question might seem a little 
 > > elementary, but I can't seem to get my systems to power off consistently when 
 > > I issue an init 0.  It seems that all of them will power down sometimes, and 
 > > at other times the same systems won't power down.  Once powered down I have 
 > > no problem (at least not yet anyway) waking the systems back up.  What can be 
 > > causing this inconsistent behavior?????
 > there are two things you may try:
 >   1. If your system does not use the local APIC you might build a kernel
 >    without "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC
 >   2. do not use the rtc-module "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", but if
 >    you need the generic RTC CONFIG_GEN_RTC instead.

As some of you may remember, this is what solved the problem for me some
times ago.  However, in the last few days, I noticed on 2 occasions that my
laptop did not power off.  The only thing I changed was playing with usb
stuff, making some of it as modules and not.

The worrying thing is that it is not consistent.  At least I haven't been
able to see the pattern yet (as it only happened twice).  Will try to
figure out and report back if/when I do.

Fred



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