Re: Vaio doesn't poweroff with 2.4.22

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > With 2.4.22, my Sony Vaio PCG-Z600TEK (s/600/505/ in US/JP) shows a regression
> > > > w.r.t. power management:
> > > >   - It doesn't poweroff anymore (screen contents are still there after the
> > > >     powering down message)
> > > >   - It doesn't reboot anymore (screen goes black, though)
> > > >   - It accidentally suspended to RAM once while I was actively working on it (I
> > > >     never managed to get suspend working, except for this `accident'). I didn't
> > > >     see any messages about this in the kernel log.
> > > 
> > > It suspended to RAM... Did it also *resume* correctly?
> > 
> > Yes, since I could continue working without problems (except for lost Ethernet,
> > solved by ifdown -a/ifup -a).
> 
> And was that acpi or apm? If it was acpi you saw a little miracle.

ACPI.

BTW, I just started to see other weird things that may be related to ACPI, but
aren't related to Linux (machine powers down 1 second after power up, etc.),
but now it's fine again (running 2.4.21).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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