From: "Andrew Paprocki" <andrew@ishiboo.com>
To: "Pavel Machek" <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ACPI "Soft-off" power button only rebooting system, not powering off
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:33:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76366b180809170533t6962f3d0qf67278b2e9ff6bd0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080917101809.GA4771@elf.ucw.cz>
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Wed 2008-09-17 00:50:03, Andrew Paprocki wrote:
>> I have an AMD / Award BIOS based system which does not properly shut
>> off when I hold down the power button for 4 seconds. The BIOS is
>> configured to have "Soft-off" set to "Delay for 4 seconds" which is
>> supposed to power the machine off if the button is held that long.
>>
>> I first thought this could be a BIOS bug, but this *only* appears to
>> happen while Linux is running. If the computer is running WinXP, it
>
> Well, so the BIOS is broken. 4second hold should power down the
> machine regardless of the operating system.
Yes, I agree.. I just find it strange that it works on the BIOS screen
as well as in GRUB, but as soon as Linux boots, it no longer works.
Since it works under WinXP, there must be some way to get it to work
properly from the OS side even it if means working around the bug
somehow.
-Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-17 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-17 4:50 Andrew Paprocki
2008-09-17 10:18 ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-17 12:33 ` Andrew Paprocki [this message]
2008-09-18 11:06 ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-18 12:12 ` Stephen Clark
2008-09-18 12:25 ` Simon Farnsworth
2008-09-18 13:53 ` Bill Davidsen
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2008-09-18 15:04 ` Bodo Eggert
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