Re: ACPI problems on Athlon MP system

[Arndt Schoenewald <abs-SA7OhAOe25xnNxvc45mVi0K323yFvGpRdefyYXQ/eNw@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Martin,

the ACPI support in the 2.4 kernel series is very old (from autumn
2001 if I remember correctly), so you should use the ACPI patch from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi; in your case

    http://prdownloads.sf.net/acpi/acpi-20021212-2.4.20.diff.gz

(This patch applies cleanly against linux-2.4.21-pre2 from kernel.org
even though it was done for 2.4.20.)

The Intel people are trying to get an updated ACPI version into 2.4,
but I guess this will not happen before 2.4.22. The 2.5 kernel series
does already include a current ACPI version.

Good luck,
Arndt


On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:07:41PM -0800, Martin Siegert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am not sure whether this is the correct place to ask this question,
> but hopefully you can point me in the right direction.
> 
> Here is the problem:
> I am trying to get the "poweroff" command working on an Athlon MP
> (Tyan S2462) system (linux-2.4.21-pre2; otherwise RedHat 7.3).
> 
> The machine has ACPI enabled in the bios. When I compile the kernel
> with ACPI disabled, the poweroff command shuts down the system, but
> does not shut off the power (it acts exactly like the halt command).
> In order to shutoff the machine I must press the power switch.
> 
> When I compile the kernel with ACPI enabled the situation is worse:
> the halt and poweroff commands still work in exactly the same way
> (shutdown the system), but now I cannot switch off the machine
> anymore: pressing the power switch has absolutely no effect
> (regardless of how long I hold the switch). The only way to
> switch off the machine is to either pull the power cord or to
> press the reset button on then the power switch (which will then
> switch off the machine when it reboots).
> 
> What am I doing wrong? Am I missing some kernel switches, options?
> Do I need additional software?
> 
> Any help or suggestions, hints are appreciated!
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Martin

-- 
Arndt Schoenewald <abs-SA7OhAOe25xnNxvc45mVi0K323yFvGpRdefyYXQ/eNw@public.gmane.org>, Software Developer
Quelltext AG (http://www.quelltext-ag.de), Dortmund, Germany


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