Re: [ACPI-sppt] Problem with poweroff (was Re: plz help ACPI)

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--- Matt Gibson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday 07 Jul 2003 14:47, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> > PLEASE! If you want to support us in helping you
> to solve your problem,
> 
> Well, I'm going to try following the rules, as I've
> just joined the list.  
> I've looked quite hard for a solution to my problem,
> but perhaps I just 
> haven't hit the right page yet.
> 
> > 1) start your system with an ACPI enabled kernel
> 
> I have an ACPI enabled 2.4.21 kernel, using
> acpi-20030619-2.4.21.diff.
> 
> > 2) load all of the available ACPI modules, e.g.
> using modprobe for each of
> > them. 
> 
> I have chosen to compile in everything rather than
> use modules.
> 
> 3) run dmesg to see if there are any ACPI related
> errors.
> 
> No errors; I see "ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030619"
> and some other useful 
> stuff, but no actual errors.
> 
> 5) check the files in the /proc/acpi/*
> subdirectories to
> > see if they seem to provide useful/correct
> information 
> 
> Everything seems fine.
> 
> > 7) do not forget to add some further information
> to your mail, including
> > your system type (laptop? brand?), if you actually
> have any problems with
> > your running system, what those problems are (more
> than one symptom per
> > mail, if possible) and how to reproduce them - and
> anything else that you
> > think might help us in understanding the problem
> and finding a solution.
> 
> Right.  Here goes.  I'm not sure if my problem is
> actually ACPI-related.  I 
> recently updated my kernel to the standard 2.4.21,
> because the SuSE-supplied 
> kernel (2.4.18) for SuSE 7.2 was causing occasional
> hangs.  Everything is 
> fine, and the hanging has gone away, but one problem
> remains: now, my PC 
> won't power off at shutdown.  I've tried halt -p
> (and poweroff) manually, 
> and all that happens is that I get a sound which I
> think is my hard drive 
> (IDE) parking, but then the system stays switched
> on.
> 
> I tried APM, which I was using before, and ACPI, and
> neither will power off 
> the machine.  With ACPI, if I "echo 5 >
> /proc/acpi/sleep", then the machine 
> does power off quite happily, so I think ACPI is
> working more than well 
> enough to enter the S5 state.  So what I'm wondering
> is if there's something 
> in halt/init that I need to update to take into
> account the fact that I'm 
> using ACPI.
> 
> The machine powers off quite happily under Windows. 
> Currently, I have 
> "ACPI-aware OS" selected in the BIOS.
> 
> I'm using a Gigabyte K7S5A motherboard with the
> latest available AMI BIOS, 
> and I've tried using a custom DSDT table with any
> compilation problems 
> fixed, but I'm guessing, as the echo > sleep works,
> that the core of ACPI is 
> working okay.
> 
> Any ideas, folks?  Even if no one can solve my
> problem, I'd appreciate a 
> pointer to a good page which describes how the
> halt/poweroff commands 
> interact with the kernel to perform a poweroff.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
> 
> -- 
> "It's the small gaps between the rain that count,
>  and learning how to live amongst them."
> 	      -- Jeff Noon
> 
> 
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