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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: acpi_power_off doesn't
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 23:35:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4469649A.80203@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6d08v-5T4-15@gated-at.bofh.it>

Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi Len,
> 
> The problem does not exist, if I boot my PC and then
> halt it immediately. If I login and use it for some
> time, then acpi_power_off does not work.
> 
> Box 'X' is an Aopen MZ-915M, CPU is a 2 GHz Pentium
> M. It is running Debian Sid, kernel is vanilla
> 
> Linux bugs 2.6.17-rc4 #1 PREEMPT Sat May 13 16:22:54 CEST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> Old kernels don't work on this PC due to missing
> hardware support. The first vanilla kernel that worked
> reliably on this box (except for acpi_power_off) was 2.6.16.

Do you get any ACPI execution errors, etc. in the dmesg output after the 
system has been running for a while? I've seen this happen after the 
ACPI machinery gets into a bad state..

-- 
Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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       reply	other threads:[~2006-05-16  5:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <6cPPS-7BT-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <6d08v-5T4-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-05-16  5:35   ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2006-05-16  6:49     ` acpi_power_off doesn't Harald Dunkel
2006-05-16  6:38 Brown, Len
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-15 17:54 Brown, Len
2006-05-16  5:13 ` Harald Dunkel
2006-05-15 17:31 Harald Dunkel

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