From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751463AbWEPFiQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 01:38:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751469AbWEPFiP (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 01:38:15 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:39100 "EHLO pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751463AbWEPFiP (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 01:38:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 23:35:22 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: acpi_power_off doesn't In-reply-to: <6d08v-5T4-15@gated-at.bofh.it> To: Harald Dunkel , linux-kernel Message-id: <4469649A.80203@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <6cPPS-7BT-33@gated-at.bofh.it> <6d08v-5T4-15@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/