From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269454AbUJFUHk (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:07:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269453AbUJFUHc (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:07:32 -0400 Received: from ns1.maildns.com ([64.215.178.100]:29889 "HELO maildns.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269455AbUJFUGn (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:06:43 -0400 Subject: Re: PROBLEM: shutdown fails with 2.6.9-rc3 From: Charles Johnston To: Daniel Gryniewicz Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1097090983.10141.3.camel@athena.fprintf.net> References: <1097090983.10141.3.camel@athena.fprintf.net> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1097093201.3008.2.camel@mercury> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:06:42 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 13:29, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > Hi, all. > > I just upgraded to 2.6.9-rc3 from a 2.6.8.1 based kernel, and my laptop > is no longer powering off. Sometimes, the screen powers off, sometimes > it sits there saying "Power Down", but in either case, the power LED is > still lit, and a hard power-off is necessary. This did not happen with > 2.6.8.1. I tried booting with acpi=off (as there was a report of > shutdown weirdness due to acpi on 2.6.9-rc1), but that did not help. > > I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop, with a Pentium-M 1500, and Centrino > chipset. Attached is lscpi, cpuinfo, /proc/modules, and config for the > 2.6.9-rc3 kernel that fails. > > Linux version 2.6.9-rc3 (dang@athena) (gcc version 3.4.2 (Gentoo Linux > 3.4.2-r2, ssp-3.4.1-1, pie-8.7.6.5)) #1 Wed Oct 6 15:02:35 EDT 2004 > > Daniel I have the same machine and experienced the same problem starting with 2.6.9-rc1. The solution is to disable APIC and IO-APIC support. The reason why it now has problems is the black-list with the Inspiron on it was removed. Charles