From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Subject: Re: question about kernel 2.6.1 Date: 11 Feb 2004 13:31:16 GMT Sender: linux-laptop-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <1075925263.2952.29.camel@darkstar> Return-path: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-laptop@vger.kernel.org In article <1075925263.2952.29.camel@darkstar>, Roman Jordan wrote: | Hi, | i have a sony PCG-FX505 laptop (ati graphic and 1,2 GHz mobile athlon). | I use fedora linux version 1.0. The system runs o.k. | After the installation of the kernel version 2.6.1 i can't shutdown the | system. The commands 'halt' and 'poweroff' doesn't switch off the | device. | The display is black, but the LEDs are still on. | | Any suggestions where to start solving? 1 - try 2.6.2 2 - try APM instead of ACPI 3 - try the patch posted here recently 4 - google for the "laptop patch" 5 - try the absolute latest ACPI patch (URL recently posted) 6 - stay with 2.4 unless there's something you really need in 2.6 7 - APM has a "use real mode shutdown" option, try that 8 - reboot into 2.4 and then shutdown With all of the 2.6 features backported to 2.4 in Redhat kernels, the benefits are fairly small for most people. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.