Re: Vaio doesn't poweroff with 2.4.22

[Willy Tarreau]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:17:37PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
 
> If I turn off CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC I get:
> 
> | ACPI disabled because your bios is from 00 and too old
> | You can enable it with acpi=force
> | Sony Vaio laptop detected.
> 
> and ACPI is disabled. Halt doesn't work.
> 
> If I then pass `acpi=force' to explicitly enable ACPI, `halt' works again and
> powers off the machine, but `reboot' causes a black screen with IDE disk spun
> down, but no restart.

Strangely, the problem you describe here what I got with local APIC enabled,
on a Vaio PCG-FX705 (athlon 1.3G). I think I will retry with a recent kernel
to be sure these problems vanished.

Regards,
Willy

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