Re: 2.6 won't poweroff

Len Brown
2004-05-27T06:19:28Z

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 13:31, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:

> same problem here with sony vaio tr2: no power off unless apic is
> removed. sorry for the dumb question but if the apic is not there why
> does acpi say something like "apic found: re-enabling bios"?

it isn't ACPI that does this, it is the base OS (and I think it is a bad
idea). You'll see this message even with acpi=off.

"nolapic" will make it go away.

-Len