From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Bubrouski Subject: Re: vaio doesn't poweroff with 2.4.22 (fwd) Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 20:03:38 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <3F83545A.2030900@ccs.neu.edu> References: <1065560111.3366.33.camel@dhcppc4> <20031007234655.GA10471@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20031007234655.GA10471-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> To: Dave Jones Cc: Len Brown , Geert Uytterhoeven , Marcelo Tosatti , Dimitri Torfs , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, Linux Kernel Development List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Dave Jones wrote: > 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 > You can find bios updates at http://ciscdb.sel.sony.com/cgi-bin/select-p-n.pl if you go to drivers and select other OS, but the bios updates are listed as runnable in XP... -sb