Re: ACPI problems

[Aioanei Rares <bsdlisten%gmail.com@localhost>]

Sad Clouds wrote:
> I'm having weird problems with ACPI on NetBSD-5.0_STABLE, running on
> dual Pentium 3 machine.
>
> Running 'shutdown -p' sometimes powers off the system and sometimes it
> leaves it still running.
>
> I've noticed the following error messages in the log file:
>
> Jan 27 11:34:23 p3smp /netbsd: ACPI Error (hwacpi-0225): Hardware did
> not change modes [20080321]
> Jan 27 11:34:23 p3smp /netbsd: ACPI Error (evxfevnt-0171): Could not
> transition to ACPI mode [20080321]
> Jan 27 11:34:23 p3smp /netbsd: ACPI Warning (utxface-0233): AcpiEnable
> failed [2 0080321]
> Jan 27 11:34:23 p3smp /netbsd: ACPI: unable to enable:
> AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
>
> Any idea of this could be a hardware fault or perhaps software related
> to NetBSD kernel?
>
>   
My first bet would be hardware fault, but there's a simple way to test 
this : try a livecd of you choice (BSD, Linux, etc.) and try a shutdown 
-hp (BSD) or shutdown -h (Linux)

Best regards,