Hi, all.
I just upgraded to 2.6.9-rc3 from a 2.6.8.1 based kernel, and my laptop
is no longer powering off. Sometimes, the screen powers off, sometimes
it sits there saying "Power Down", but in either case, the power LED is
still lit, and a hard power-off is necessary. This did not happen with
2.6.8.1. I tried booting with acpi=off (as there was a report of
shutdown weirdness due to acpi on 2.6.9-rc1), but that did not help.
I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop, with a Pentium-M 1500, and Centrino
chipset. Attached is lscpi, cpuinfo, /proc/modules, and config for the
2.6.9-rc3 kernel that fails.
Linux version 2.6.9-rc3 (dang@athena) (gcc version 3.4.2 (Gentoo Linux
3.4.2-r2, ssp-3.4.1-1, pie-8.7.6.5)) #1 Wed Oct 6 15:02:35 EDT 2004
Daniel
On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 13:29, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I just upgraded to 2.6.9-rc3 from a 2.6.8.1 based kernel, and my laptop
> is no longer powering off. Sometimes, the screen powers off, sometimes
> it sits there saying "Power Down", but in either case, the power LED is
> still lit, and a hard power-off is necessary. This did not happen with
> 2.6.8.1. I tried booting with acpi=off (as there was a report of
> shutdown weirdness due to acpi on 2.6.9-rc1), but that did not help.
>
> I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop, with a Pentium-M 1500, and Centrino
> chipset. Attached is lscpi, cpuinfo, /proc/modules, and config for the
> 2.6.9-rc3 kernel that fails.
>
> Linux version 2.6.9-rc3 (dang@athena) (gcc version 3.4.2 (Gentoo Linux
> 3.4.2-r2, ssp-3.4.1-1, pie-8.7.6.5)) #1 Wed Oct 6 15:02:35 EDT 2004
>
> Daniel
I have the same machine and experienced the same problem starting with
2.6.9-rc1.
The solution is to disable APIC and IO-APIC support. The reason why it
now has problems is the black-list with the Inspiron on it was removed.
Charles
On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 14:06 -0600, Charles Johnston wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 13:29, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > I just upgraded to 2.6.9-rc3 from a 2.6.8.1 based kernel, and my laptop
> > is no longer powering off. Sometimes, the screen powers off, sometimes
> > it sits there saying "Power Down", but in either case, the power LED is
> > still lit, and a hard power-off is necessary. This did not happen with
> > 2.6.8.1. I tried booting with acpi=off (as there was a report of
> > shutdown weirdness due to acpi on 2.6.9-rc1), but that did not help.
> >
> > I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop, with a Pentium-M 1500, and Centrino
> > chipset. Attached is lscpi, cpuinfo, /proc/modules, and config for the
> > 2.6.9-rc3 kernel that fails.
> >
> > Linux version 2.6.9-rc3 (dang@athena) (gcc version 3.4.2 (Gentoo Linux
> > 3.4.2-r2, ssp-3.4.1-1, pie-8.7.6.5)) #1 Wed Oct 6 15:02:35 EDT 2004
> >
> > Daniel
>
> I have the same machine and experienced the same problem starting with
> 2.6.9-rc1.
>
> The solution is to disable APIC and IO-APIC support. The reason why it
> now has problems is the black-list with the Inspiron on it was removed.
>
>
> Charles
Thanks, that worked.
Daniel