Re: A8N-SLI Deluxe: poweroff OK with 1006 bios, fails with 1011 and later bioses

[jurriaan <thunder7-qWit8jRvyhVmR6Xm/wNWPw@public.gmane.org>]

From: jurriaan <thunder7-qWit8jRvyhVmR6Xm/wNWPw@public.gmane.org>
Date: Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 08:48:02AM +0200
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> My Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard doesn't power off when shutting down
> with a bios later than the original 1006.
> 
> I would like to use a newer bios, since they support X2 chips, for
> example.
> 
> I have decompiled the 1006 dsdt and the 1011 dsdt, and somewhere there
> must be a difference that causes this.
> 
> I've tried to read the acpi specification to find out where I should
> start, but I'm not getting it. What parts in the dsdt have to do with
> powering off the system? Where do I look?
> 
For the record (and for future google searchers, this is a popular
motherboard), recompiling the dsdt into the kernel after fixing a number
of compilation errors fixed this, both for bios version 1007 and for
1013-002, so I'm confident it's the fixing of the dsdt that's important
here.

Jurriaan
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