Re: [Solved] Re: power-off (Acer TM632)

Arch. Giovanni Andrea Lucaferri
2004-07-19T20:45:14Z

Hi Emma, mizu, hgfelger,
it works! I've isolated the problem.
I only had CONFIG_RTC=Y in my kernel and that was the only problem.
I've set
# CONFIG_RTC is not set
and everything works now.

acer TM632
slackware 10.0 kernel 2.4.26

tanks to everybody

Emma Jane Hogbin ha scritto:
> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:37:26PM +0200, mizu wrote:
>
>> I guess, Problem was in "Enhanced RTC driver". If i have this driver
>> inside a kernel (or like module), my laptop will never poweroff().
>> last message was like this:
>> ...
>> call_power_off()
>> ...HANG...
>> (also i have inserted HPET timer inside kernel, not like module)
>>
>> Is this some unresolved dependency with RTC ?
>> Can i have both timers ? (RTC, HPET )
>
>
> Here is my update for the Acer TravelMate 634.
>
> I have the following set (or rather _NOT_ set) in my kernel and I can now
> power off correctly:
> # CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC is not set
> # CONFIG_RTC is not set
> # CONFIG_GEN_RTC is not set
>
> Also. I had been having problems with my computer randomly freezing. I
> thought this was a problem with ACPI, or perhaps an old BIOS, however it
> is not.
>
> When I upgraded to the 2.6 kernel I did not have the right drivers
> installed for my touch pad. It was half installed and as a result it
> was causing all kinds of problems. I now have the Synaptics drivers
> properly installed and everything (seems to be) working again. A _huge_
> thank you to Hartwig Felger for helping me to track this problem down!
>
> emma
>

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