Dell 1950 won't cleanly reboot

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 03:46:08 am Jason Thomson wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 09 August 2006 07:11:13 pm Olivier Mueller wrote:
> > 
> >>hello,
> >>
> >>On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 17:43 -0700, joe mcguckin wrote:
> >>
> >>>shutdown -r hangs most of the time.
> >>>I have a spare machine to lend someone in the SF bay area if that  
> >>>would help...
> >>
> >>Have you made any progress on this issue yet? 
> > 
> > 
> > Are people still seeing this issue?  I MFC'd some recent fixes to the 
shutdown 
> > code a week or so ago that may or may not help.
> > 
> 
> It was a while ago now,  but IIRC:
> 
> We had some problems with these machines until we re-enabled the
> keyboard controller.
> 
> (They come with USB keyboards,  and the RAC simulates a USB controller,
> but the atkbdc driver is involved in resetting the machine?)
> 
> This is from a January 07 build,  so doesn't include latest patches.

Ok, in that case these patches might indeed fix the issue, as they fixed bugs 
where the system wouldn't reboot if the keyboard controller reset failed.

-- 
John Baldwin