power-off problem : ASUS K7 + ASUS L3800 + Kernel 2.6-pre9

power-off problem : ASUS K7 + ASUS L3800 + Kernel 2.6-pre9

[Jean-Michel POURE]

Dear friends,

I recently installed Debian 2.6-pre9 kernel on two ASUS computers: a K7 
terminator and a L3800 laptop. Previously, I was using apm under kernel 2.4.

Under the nex kernel, ACPI seems to work fine as I can monitor various 
information. The problem is that both computers do not power-off.

When pressing the button, /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh is executed and init 0 is 
trigerred.

if ps -Af | grep -q '[k]desktop' && test -f /usr/bin/dcop
then
    dcop --all-users ksmserver ksmserver logout 0 2 0 && exit 0
fi

/sbin/init 0

But the computers do not shut-down cleanly (no power-off). I checked their 
BIOS and in both cases, the latest versions are installed. /var/log/acpid 
shows normal information:

[Mon Dec 15 16:45:43 2003] received event "button/power PWRF 00000080 
00000001"
[Mon Dec 15 16:45:43 2003] executing action "/etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh"
[Mon Dec 15 16:45:43 2003] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES
[Mon Dec 15 16:45:44 2003] END HANDLER MESSAGES
[Mon Dec 15 16:45:44 2003] action exited with status 0
[Mon Dec 15 16:45:44 2003] completed event "button/power PWRF 00000080 
00000001"
[Mon Dec 15 16:45:46 2003] exiting

Do I miss something? This power-off question is quite a problem for me as 
everytime I start the computers, ext3 recovers files. Can anyone help me?

Best regards,
Jean-Michel



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RE: power-off problem : ASUS K7 + ASUS L3800 + Kernel 2.6-pre9

[Yu, Luming]

>Under the nex kernel, ACPI seems to work fine as I can monitor various information. 
Good news.

>The problem is that both computers do not power-off.
I'm not sure, please try patch filed at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1141


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Re: power-off problem : ASUS K7 + ASUS L3800 + Kernel 2.6-pre9

[Jean-Michel POURE]

Le Mercredi 17 Décembre 2003 06:34, Yu, Luming a écrit :
> >Under the nex kernel, ACPI seems to work fine as I can monitor various
> > information.
> Good news.
> >The problem is that both computers do not power-off.
> I'm not sure, please try patch filed at
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1141

Dear Yu,

Thanks, apparently this patch loops to reach S5 state. It seems to be a 
possible solution. Some questions:

1) The patch is against a 2.4 kernel. Can it be safely applied against 2.6?
2) How does the APM deamon switch-off the machine. Does it loops too?

Now, a third station (based on a Tyan board) has the same problem. This 
power-off problem is a real problem. It does not only occur under ASUS 
boards.

Maybe I miss something, but the main need of ACPI is to be able to switch-off 
a computer... Why is this patch not applied by default?

Best regards,
Jean-Michel



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Re: power-off problem : ASUS K7 + ASUS L3800 + Kernel 2.6-pre9

[Arjen Verweij]

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I heard that with powerdown trouble, can possibly be solved by using
userland deamons, like apmd for apm and acpid for acpi. I will try the
acpid for my laptop during the holidays.

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Jean-Michel POURE wrote:

> Le Mercredi 17 Décembre 2003 06:34, Yu, Luming a écrit :
> > >Under the nex kernel, ACPI seems to work fine as I can monitor various
> > > information.
> > Good news.
> > >The problem is that both computers do not power-off.
> > I'm not sure, please try patch filed at
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1141
>
> Dear Yu,
>
> Thanks, apparently this patch loops to reach S5 state. It seems to be a
> possible solution. Some questions:
>
> 1) The patch is against a 2.4 kernel. Can it be safely applied against 2.6?
> 2) How does the APM deamon switch-off the machine. Does it loops too?
>
> Now, a third station (based on a Tyan board) has the same problem. This
> power-off problem is a real problem. It does not only occur under ASUS
> boards.
>
> Maybe I miss something, but the main need of ACPI is to be able to switch-off
> a computer... Why is this patch not applied by default?
>
> Best regards,
> Jean-Michel
>
>
>
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Re: power-off problem : ASUS K7 + ASUS L3800 + Kernel 2.6-pre9

[Jean-Michel POURE]

Le Mercredi 17 Décembre 2003 12:08, Arjen Verweij a écrit :
> I heard that with powerdown trouble, can possibly be solved by using
> userland deamons, like apmd for apm and acpid for acpi. I will try the
> acpid for my laptop during the holidays.

Unfortunately, I believe ACPI and APM cannot be used at the same time.

I am quite sure that I misunderstand something in ACPI. Seriously, I cannot 
believe ACPI is not able to power-down computers. Can anyone explain me how 
to power-down a computer using ACPI? Is there a special script of something?

Think of servers running in rack-mounts. They need ACPI to cool down when 
there is no activity. How do you shut them down using ACPI?

Cheers, Jean-Michel



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Re: power-off problem : ASUS K7 + ASUS L3800 + Kernel 2.6-pre9

[Jean-Michel POURE]

Le Mercredi 17 Décembre 2003 12:08, Arjen Verweij a écrit :
> I heard that with powerdown trouble, can possibly be solved by using
> userland deamons, like apmd for apm and acpid for acpi. I will try the
> acpid for my laptop during the holidays.

Sorry, I misread your message. The ACPI deamon loads the required ACPI 
modules. What alse can it do? IMHO, the problem does not lay here.

Cheers, Jean-Michel

*************
#! /bin/sh -e

test -x /usr/sbin/acpid || exit 0

# Include acpid defaults if available
OPTIONS=""
if [ -f /etc/default/acpid ] ; then
        . /etc/default/acpid
fi

# As the name says. If the kernel supports modules, it'll try to load
# the ones listed in "MODULES".
load_modules() {
        LIST=`/sbin/lsmod|awk '!/Module/ {print $1}'`

        if [ "$MODULES" = "all" ]; then
                LOC="/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/acpi"
                if [ -d $LOC ]; then
                  MODULES=`( find $LOC -type f -name "*.o" -printf "basename %
f .o\n"; \
                        find $LOC -type f -name "*.ko" -printf "basename %
f .ko\n" ) | /bin/sh`
                else
                  MODULES=""
                fi
        fi

        for mod in $MODULES; do
                echo $LIST | grep -q -w "$mod" || modprobe $mod || /bin/true
        done
}

case "$1" in
  start)
    echo -n "Starting Advanced Configuration and Power Interface daemon: "
    [ -f /proc/modules ] && load_modules
    if [ ! -d /proc/acpi ]; then
        echo "not supported by kernel"
        exit 0
    fi
    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/acpid -- -c /etc/acpi/
events $OPTIONS
    echo "acpid."
    ;;
  stop)
    echo -n "Stopping Advanced Configuration and Power Interface daemon: "
    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/sbin/acpid
    echo "acpid."
    ;;
  restart)
    $0 stop
    $0 start
    ;;
  reload|force-reload)
    echo "Reloading Advanced Configuration and Power Interface daemon 
configuration files"
    start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --exec /usr/sbin/acpid
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/acpid {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}"
    exit 1
esac



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Re: power-off problem : ASUS K7 + ASUS L3800 + Kernel 2.6-pre9

[Karol Kozimor]

Thus wrote Jean-Michel POURE:
> Thanks, apparently this patch loops to reach S5 state. It seems to be a 
> possible solution. Some questions:
[...]
> Maybe I miss something, but the main need of ACPI is to be able to switch-off 
> a computer... Why is this patch not applied by default?

ACPI shutdowns well here on the same machine (L3800C), I don't recall having
any problems at all with any kernel, but it's possible I didn't test test7
extensively. Anyway, test11 shutdowns fine, so go upgrade your kernel to
fix that.
Best regards,

-- 
Karol 'sziwan' Kozimor
sziwan-DETuoxkZsSqrDJvtcaxF/A@public.gmane.org


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Re: power-off problem : ASUS K7 + ASUS L3800 + Kernel 2.6-pre9

[Jean-Michel POURE]

Le Mercredi 17 Décembre 2003 17:52, Karol Kozimor a écrit :
> ACPI shutdowns well here on the same machine (L3800C), I don't recall
> having any problems at all with any kernel, but it's possible I didn't test
> test7 extensively. Anyway, test11 shutdowns fine, so go upgrade your kernel
> to fix that.
> Best regards,

Thanks a lot. Maybe the reason for that is that I installed Kernel-2.6-test9 
from Debian unstable, and did not compile it myself. Can it be the reason?

Best regards, Jean-Michel



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