Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

[Josh Paetzel]

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 12:42, Guy Helmer wrote:
> Bill Moran wrote:
> > In response to Guy Helmer <ghelmer at palisadesys.com>:
> >> Bill Moran wrote:
> >>> A reboot causes the OS to halt, but the hardware just sits
> >>> there on the shutdown screen.
> >>>
> >>> A shutdown -p does the same.
> >>>
> >>> Other ACPIish stuff seems to work as advertised.  (i.e. hitting
> >>> the power button cleanly shuts down the OS)
> >>>
> >>> I'm posting this to stable@, but the same behaviour occurs with
> >>> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE as well.
> >>
> >> Does setting "hw.acpi.handle_reboot" to 1 via sysctl help?  If
> >> set, this variable will use ACPI to perform the reboot action
> >> via the reset register instead of using the keyboard controller
> >> or a triple fault to reboot.
> >
> > I manually changed that setting and the behaviour did not change.
> > Does the setting need set before the kernel boots?
>
> The value of that parameter is checked at runtime so you should be
> able to set it while the system is running.  Do you get an "ACPI
> reset failed" message on the console?
>
> Guy

For what it's worth I have 6.1-R on a 1950 and reboot works just fine.  
Haven't tried the shutdown -p command.

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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel