On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:49:52 +0100
Thomas Pfaff <tpf...@tp76.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:04:46 -0500
> Marco Peereboom <sl...@peereboom.us> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 04:30:39PM +0100, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
> > > Ubuntu 8.04 (Linux 2.6.24-19) powers down my system just fine
> > > with halt -p (see previous post for details).
> >
> > Alrighty I'll look at that code (ugh!).
>
> While we're at it, I just brought up another system and halt -p
> does not work here either. Stuck at "Attempting to power down..."
Disabling apm made the system power off and then it attempted to
start up again, but the screen was blank and nothing was happening.
The lights where on, but there was nobody home, so to speak.
> I can try installing NetBSD and see if it works there. Might
> be less painful to look through their code than Linux ;-)
NetBSD 4.0/i386 shuts down just fine with halt -p on this machine.
> OpenBSD 4.5 (GENERIC) #1749: Sat Feb 28 14:51:18 MST 2009
> dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 256KB L2 cache) 1.53
> GHz
> cpu0:
> FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE
> real mem = 267939840 (255MB)
> avail mem = 250789888 (239MB)
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