Re: Lockup with 2.4.9-ac10 on Athlon

[davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109100015360.22080-100000@terbidium.openservices.net> you write:
| On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
| 
| > On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
| >
| > I have solved the problem. It had to do with the setting of
| > CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF. It has to be on in my case.
| >
| > Is there any time when this option _has_ to be off?
| 
| Sigh. I apologize. This did _not_ work. Does anyone else have any hoops for me
| to jump through?

Look for BIOS updates. I have a BP6 (dual Celeron) system, and I am
really disappointed that the only way I can power it down under software
control is to boot to another o/s. You may be able to get a BIOS which
works.

Note: if you have SMP and the kernel insists on disabling power off
(like it's not thread safe or something?) you can use "lilo -R" to boot
a uni kernel and then shut down.

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