Re: Centrino acpi issues (Issue 1 of 2)

[Luca Capello <luca-wlebWZzHoyE@public.gmane.org>]

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Hello,

on 03/19/04 10:41, liste-9nAOAgdJVo4b1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org wrote:
>>>I have some problems running kernel 2.6.4 acpi on my centrino notebook.
>>>
>>>1. When i issue a shutdown command I only get a message saying:
>>>'acpi_power_off called'. Then the screen turns black and according to
>>>the fan noise I think the cpu get in some kind of infinite loop. It
>>>doesn't power off.
I experienced the same problem on my Centrino ASUS M6842NWH.

> for this issue you might want to follow
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2183
> and see the duplicate at the end. Then you will find a patch:
> "hwsleep.c revert part of v1.23 introduced cond. when S5".
I tried this patch with no success and then I found that the problem in my case
is completely different: I disabled APIC support in the kernel (not even
compiled) and then I've clean shutdown.

So you've 2 tests:
- - Hartwig's patch
- - disabling APIC support

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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