Re: snd-hda-intel prevents machine to power off

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Tue Oct 28 2008 - 12:07:56 EST


At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:59:33 -0200,
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote:
>
>
> Hi Takashi,
>
> If I have some process with the sound device opened in my eeepc
> (say KDE's kmix) and try to power off the machine, for example with:
>
> # echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger
>
> The machine will not power off.

At which point does it stop?
What shows alt-sysrq-t (or w) output?

> But it does work if I remove the snd-hda-intel module before issuing
> the echo above.
>
> This problem seems to be pretty popular among distros, I could find
> it reported for Mandriva, Ubuntu and Fedora.

Hmm, I haven't heard of unfixed issues.

> Its workaround is also documented in a few wikis: people are doing
> a 'rmmod snd-hda-intel' in the last halt stage (ie, halt script
> in etc).

I hate wiki or forum just recommending a wrong workaround :)


thanks,

Takashi
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/