public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Lockup with 2.4.9-ac10 on Athlon
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:42:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10119.1001072532@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200109202208.f8KM8o902962@deathstar.prodigy.com>
In-Reply-To: <200109202208.f8KM8o902962@deathstar.prodigy.com>


davidsen@tmr.com said:
>  Look for BIOS updates. I have a BP6 (dual Celeron) system, and I am
> really disappointed that the only way I can power it down under
> software control is to boot to another o/s. You may be able to get a
> BIOS which works.

Strange - mine works. Either with APM and 'apm=power-off' on the command 
line, or with ACPI and a hack to work around the incompetence of Abit's 
BIOS engineers.

Me: "There's a one-char typo in your ACPI bytecode which prevents it from 
	working. This is the fix...."
Abit: "You can work around that by turning off ACPI support in the BIOS 
	setup"
Me: "But that just disables it, and makes it continue to not work. To make
	it work, it needs to be enabled - but there's a simple typo which
	prevents it from working."
Abit: <silence>

Sometimes it amazes me just how stupid some people can be and still 
actually keep their job.

--
dwmw2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-21 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-09 18:01 Lockup with 2.4.9-ac10 on Athlon Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-09-09 22:09 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-09-10  0:24   ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-09-10  0:49     ` Kurt Garloff
2001-09-10  4:16     ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-09-20 22:08       ` bill davidsen
2001-09-20 22:32         ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-09-21 11:42         ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-09-21 14:17           ` Bill Davidsen
2001-09-21 14:39             ` David Woodhouse

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=10119.1001072532@redhat.com \
    --to=dwmw2@infradead.org \
    --cc=davidsen@tmr.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox