Re: [ACPI] Machines self-power-up with 2.6.9-rc3 (evo N620c, ASUS, ...)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> Thanks for your report. I have some suggestions to identify your
> problem and help ACPI developers to work more effectively.
> 
> The developers are working both fixing ACPI related bugs and applying
> work around for bad BIOS behaviors. At this time I think fixing
> bugs is more important than applying work around.
> 
> So if your problem on some machine is so serious, could you please
> give us the BIOS version and whether the machine suspend/resume is
> OK in ACPI mode of Windows 2000/XP too? Of course DSDT table check
> is highly helpful. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ is prepared for such
> purpose.

I was not talking about suspend/resume here, it wakes up even after
plain /sbin/shutdown -h now. I do not have Windows here to try, but it
works well in 2.6.7... 

								Pavel

> > I'm seeing bad problem with N620c notebook (and have reports of more
> > machines behaving like this, for example ASUS L8400C.) If I shutdown
> > machine with lid closed, opening lid will power the machine up. Ouch.
> > 2.6.7 behaves okay.
> >
> > Ouch, acpi=off makes it even worse [2.6.9-rc3, N620c]. I get some very
> > strange show on the leds (battery charge led blinks fast?!), then
> > machine powers up itself. This happens even with lid initially
> > open. 2.6.7 works as expected.
> >
> > Any ideas?


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