Re: PR 42583: ACPI errors, HP DV6-1334US [Was: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD]

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jan 6,  7:14pm, alex-goncharov%comcast.net@localhost (Alex Goncharov) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: PR 42583: ACPI errors, HP DV6-1334US [Was: The imperfect beau

| ,--- You/christos%astron.com@localhost (Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:42:12 +0000 (UTC)) 
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| | >Tried this again, on the laptop, submitting `halt -p' in an `xterm'
| | >window displayed elsewhere -- the laptop doesn't power off, with the
| | >old or new BIOS.
| | 
| | Try 'shutdown -p now'. I've had problems with deadlocks when using halt -p
| | due to processes not dying on time and the kernel getting stuck on their
| | resources (or even panicking).
| 
| On the laptop's console:
| 
|     halt -p => halt (Press any key to reboot)
|     shutdown -p now => ditto
| 
| I.e. no luck.

So it does not know how to powerdown through ACPI or it does not work.

christos