Re: Having problems with 2.4.9-ac

["Jordan Breeding" <jordan.breeding@inet.com>]

"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> 
> "A month of sundays ago Jordan Breeding wrote:"
> > I have reported having problems shuting down and rebooting my SMP
> > machine before.  Before the 2.4.8/9 series or ac kernels the last kernel
> 
> ditto.
> 
> > correctly reboot or shut down anymore.  What might the problem be?  I
> > don't want to go back to 2.4.8-ac10 if at all possible, 2.4.9-ac3 is one
> > of if not the most stable 2.4 kernel I have run in a long time.  Thank
> 
> Does anyone have the patch diff from 8-ac10 to 8-ac11 in the apm area?
> This sounds very hopeful for tracking down the problem .. if it's not
> just timing.
> 
> Peter

I don't think that it has anything to do with APM specifically.  On the
kernel which it doesn't work on I can use nothing, ACPI, or APM (with
smp power-off set to on).  On the kernel revisions for which it works I
normally just use ACPI.  I don't like to use APM since it isn't smp
clean completely and I only use ACPI for power-off and reboot options so
I normally just stick with that.  I guess it could be APM which is
broken but then why would ACPI not work for simple rebooting and
shutting down all the time?

Jordan