From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Sigler Subject: Re: halt does not shut the system down Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:29:19 +0200 Message-ID: <47136B2F.9070904@free.fr> References: <470A58AF.9080402@free.fr> <470C9731.6030200@free.fr> <470F4535.3050004@free.fr> <470F4F58.4080900@gmail.com> <470F7264.8070205@free.fr> <471342C8.2030305@free.fr> <47134ACF.8040608@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.30]:40542 "EHLO smtp4-g19.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757109AbXJON3V (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:29:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47134ACF.8040608@gmail.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Alexey Starikovskiy Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, robert.moore@intel.com, len.brown@intel.com Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > John Sigler wrote: > >> Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: >> >>> Could you please open bug at bugzilla.kernel.org and put all >>> these files there? >> >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9148 >> >> Writing 15361 (i.e. 0x3C01) to ACPI_REGISTER_PM1A_CONTROL appears >> to hang my system in acpi_os_write_port(). What can I do about that? > > That is supposed to turn your machine off. At least we now know that > ACPI did try to turn it off. You could also try different kernel or > defconfig. What's defconfig? .config? Which option(s) might have an impact? >> Is it a BIOS issue? a kernel issue? a hardware issue? > > I think _other_ OS could turn your machine off just fine, so the > issue is not HW, not BIOS. Probably, first thing to try is 2.6.23.1 > as it was just released and has some changes in power management > section... I have the same problem in 2.6.23.1 (cf. my bug report in the database) I'll ask the manufacturer whether they could get poweroff to work. Regards.