Re: ACPI on Averatec 2370

[DJA <dallen@codermotor.com>]

Frank Hale wrote:
> I have the latest BIOS update for my laptop which is buggy I suppose.
> There has been only one update this year if my memory serves me
> correctly. Is there any hope to fix this or am I at the mercy of the
> hardware vendor which apparenlty doesn't look like they will release
> another patch this year. Please forgive me as I am not a kernel
> developer but a concerned user. I've sacrificed ACPI in favor of SMP
> at this point, I don't know what it's buying me but the kernel boots
> and works fine with the draw back that I have no ACPI and I have to
> manually power the computer down by pressing the power button when it
> halts. I can live with that if that is the solution but I haven't
> really tracked as far as the high level dev stuff goes in this thread
> and don't know what the solution might be.

Since you mention it, I have exactly the same problem with a Toshiba 
Tecra 8000 running FC6. shutdown -r works fine, halt does not.

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