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From: Stan Bubrouski <stan@ccs.neu.edu>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
	Dimitri Torfs <dimitri@sonycom.com>,
	acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: vaio doesn't poweroff with 2.4.22 (fwd)
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 20:03:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F83545A.2030900@ccs.neu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031007234655.GA10471@redhat.com>

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



  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-08  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.GSO.4.21.0310022254280.8802-400000@vervain.sonytel.be>
2003-10-07 20:55 ` vaio doesn't poweroff with 2.4.22 (fwd) Len Brown
2003-10-07 23:46   ` Dave Jones
2003-10-08  0:03     ` Stan Bubrouski [this message]
2003-10-08  8:13   ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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