From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: vaio doesn't poweroff with 2.4.22 (fwd) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 00:46:55 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20031007234655.GA10471@redhat.com> References: <1065560111.3366.33.camel@dhcppc4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1065560111.3366.33.camel-D2Zvc0uNKG8@public.gmane.org> To: Len Brown Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Marcelo Tosatti , Dimitri Torfs , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, Linux Kernel Development List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:55:11PM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > > In 2.4.21, both `halt' and `reboot' work fine. > Did you configure with ACPI in 2.4.21? > If you configured with APM in 2.4.21, you might consider sticking with > it rather than switching to ACPI in 2.4.22. So power-off on shutdown with acpi is actually working for some folks? None of my boxes seem to work with it any more. I'm not sure when this started, but its been that way for a while, in both 2.4 and 2.6test > Also, if there is a BIOS update available for this system you should > consider it. Rocking horse poop is probably easier to find than Sony VAIO BIOS updates. I spent an afternoon once being bounced around from one Sony flash-ridden site to another to no avail.. Dave -- Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk