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

[Bill Moran]

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?

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.

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