From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
To: Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@fprintf.net>
Cc: Andrew Burgess <aab@cichlid.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tyan S2462 reboot problems
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 00:26:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020410002604.F13463@khan.acc.umu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200204091917.g39JHpe15914@athlon.cichlid.com> <20020409161412.777aec9a.dang@fprintf.net>
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:14:12PM -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> Hi.
>
> No, I doubt this has anything to do with Linux. I have a S2460
> (which his corrected post says he has), which does not power down
> under linux, and *never* warm boots cleanly. It does power down under
> windows, so I assume ACPI powerdown works and APM does not. I have
> gone under the assumption that a BIOS upgrade will fix this, but that
> involves putting a floppy into the box, so I haven't done it yet. The
> warm boot problems consist of either a hang after POST (but before
> bootloader, OS irrelevent), or really bad video corruption. I don't
> know if it boot with the video corruption, I've never let it try.
Uhm, no, you don't need a floppy in your computer to upgrade the BIOS;
I upgraded it for this TYAN 2466 today, using /dev/bios
<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/OpenBIOS/status/devbios.html>
and it worked perfectly fine.
That said, using the in-kernel ACPI should probably work for powerdown.
Regards: David Weinehall
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-09 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-09 19:17 Andrew Burgess
2002-04-09 20:14 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2002-04-09 20:20 ` John Jasen
2002-04-09 22:16 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-04-09 22:26 ` David Weinehall [this message]
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2002-04-10 18:45 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2002-04-11 15:40 ` Jordan Breeding
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2002-04-10 16:21 Nicholas Berry
2002-04-10 14:32 Martin Knoblauch
2002-04-09 8:02 Martin Knoblauch
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