reboot and shutdown don't work, suspect acpi

[Bryan Liesner]

On Sun, 30 May 2004, Kenneth Culver wrote:

> Quoting Bryan Liesner <bryan at kishka.net>:
>
>> On Sun, 30 May 2004, Paul Murphy wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 30 May 2004 11:52:07 -0400 (EDT)
>>> Bryan Liesner <bryan at kishka.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, 30 May 2004, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 17:26, Kenneth Culver wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>     Ever since the recent acpi commits, reboot and shutdown no
>>>>> longer work on my> machine (asus k8v deluxe mobo, athlon 64). The
>>>>> machine gets to "Uptime: 1m34s"> (the time is just made up) and
>>>>> hangs. The only way to fix this is to do a hard> reset by pushing 
>>>>> the
>>>>> computer's reset button. Any ideas?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Just a short me too (ASUS A7V8X-X).
>>>> 
>>>> Asus motherboards seem to be a common factor. I'm seeing this here too
>>>> with an Asus A7V266-E.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ditto, Elitegroup L7VMM3
>>> 
>> 
>> I was taking a closer look and the acpi commits seem fine.
>> Using all of the lastest sources and then reverting
>> i386/i386/intr_machdep.c back to 1.5 seems to alleviate the problem.
>> 
>> It was checked in around the same time as all of those acpi commits.
>> 
> That would explain it. Although backing out another commit doesn't seem like 
> a
> good fix to me.
>
> Ken
>

Agreed.  Just a high level cause and effect analysis.  But, this at 
least a temporary fix for me. Perhaps that commit could be uncovering 
a different issue altogther, or _is_ the issue, at least for some 
hardware configurations.

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