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

[Sean C. Farley]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, 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.

Although it is most probably not related, I had similar problems when I
used an NDIS-wrapped driver on my Dell Latitude C840 with 6-STABLE.  It
was fixed by switching to the ath driver.  I do not recall if the power
button worked or not.  reboots always worked.

Sean
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