shutdown -h now, 2.6.23-rc8 & 9

shutdown -h now, 2.6.23-rc8 & 9

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings everybody;

After seeing a message indicating that rc8 no longer did a powerdown, I 
thought I'd check that since I needed to, my tv card wasn't even showing up 
in the lspci report. It was partially backed out of the pci slot, this case 
seems to encourage that.

Indeed it went to the system halted message and just sat there.  I hadn't yet 
booted to rc9 as amanda was running, so I did just a few minutes ago.

After the reboot to rc9, I ran a make xconfig again to check that the option 
was enabled, but it seems to have disappeared from the menus in xconfig.

Why was this removed?  Or if moved, where to?

Thanks.

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Re: shutdown -h now, 2.6.23-rc8 & 9

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:50, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings everybody;
> 
> After seeing a message indicating that rc8 no longer did a powerdown, I 
> thought I'd check that since I needed to, my tv card wasn't even showing up 
> in the lspci report. It was partially backed out of the pci slot, this case 
> seems to encourage that.
> 
> Indeed it went to the system halted message and just sat there.  I hadn't yet 
> booted to rc9 as amanda was running, so I did just a few minutes ago.
> 
> After the reboot to rc9, I ran a make xconfig again to check that the option 
> was enabled, but it seems to have disappeared from the menus in xconfig.
> 
> Why was this removed?  Or if moved, where to?

Hm, which option?

Greetings,
Rafael

Re: shutdown -h now, 2.6.23-rc8 & 9

[Bill Davidsen]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings everybody;
> 
> After seeing a message indicating that rc8 no longer did a powerdown, I 
> thought I'd check that since I needed to, my tv card wasn't even showing up 
> in the lspci report. It was partially backed out of the pci slot, this case 
> seems to encourage that.
> 
I have rc8-git3 running on several machines, and I'm delighted to say 
that it powers down, reboots, and suspends to mem/disk without bothering 
to patch in suspend2. I saw the same message, but perhaps git3 had the 
fix, since machines go down correctly. I'm going to boot a laptop off CD 
  and try the rc9 on that to see if the wireless issues I had to patch 
around are fixed as promised. If so I'll go to the newest kernel for 
power saving.

> Indeed it went to the system halted message and just sat there.  I hadn't yet 
> booted to rc9 as amanda was running, so I did just a few minutes ago.
> 
> After the reboot to rc9, I ran a make xconfig again to check that the option 
> was enabled, but it seems to have disappeared from the menus in xconfig.
> 
> Why was this removed?  Or if moved, where to?
> 
What? Was what removed?

-- 
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Re: shutdown -h now, 2.6.23-rc8 & 9

[Bill Davidsen]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>   
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>     
>>> Indeed it went to the system halted message and just sat there.  I hadn't
>>> yet booted to rc9 as amanda was running, so I did just a few minutes ago.
>>>
>>> After the reboot to rc9, I ran a make xconfig again to check that the
>>> option was enabled, but it seems to have disappeared from the menus in
>>> xconfig.
>>>
>>> Why was this removed?  Or if moved, where to?
>>>       
>> What? Was what removed?
>>     
>
> This phrase has not existed in any .config newer than 2.6.23-rc1 here:
> CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y
>
>
>   
Yes, it's still there as of 23-rc8-git5, the latest source I've built on 
this machine. If you start menuconfig and search for the value, (I used 
"/APM") you will see that it now depends on various other options. I 
haven't personally needed it in a long time, but there are ACPI 
implementations which are seriously broken. And probably some embedded 
hardware and/or hand-held devices now.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979