Re: vaio doesn't poweroff with 2.4.22 (fwd)

Stan Bubrouski
2003-10-08T00:09:24Z

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