Re: Oops in APM poweroff (Kernel 2.2.14)

From: Walter Hofmann (snwahofm@mi.uni-erlangen.de)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 05:51:29 EST


On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Achilleas Kotsis wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to report an oops I keep getting when I try to poweroff my
> machine.
> I am using a Cyrix 6x86 P166+ on a Soyo SY-5EHM V1.0 motherboard.
> The problem occurs when I halt -p the machine, with APM enabled in kernel.
> The oops occurs after the system has finished shutting down, exactly after
> "Power off"
> It must be motherboard specific, because it occured with an AMD K6-2 on the
> same motherboard too, but not with the same GNU/Linux system on a Pentium II
> and a different motherboard.

Your BIOS is broken. Do as Alan said, then download the latest 2.2.15
pre-patch and enable CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF and try again.

Walter

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