Re: Vaio doesn't poweroff with 2.4.22

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > On some machines APIC (sic) support can cause this. Try turning off UP APIC
> > if you have it turned on.
> 
> If I turn off CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC I get:
> 
> | ACPI disabled because your bios is from 00 and too old
> | You can enable it with acpi=force
> | Sony Vaio laptop detected.
> 
> and ACPI is disabled. Halt doesn't work.
> 
> If I then pass _acpi=force' to explicitly enable ACPI, _halt' works again and
> powers off the machine, but _reboot' causes a black screen with IDE disk spun
> down, but no restart.

If acpi is actually usefull there, we might want to whitelist it.
Try other reboot methods...
-- 
				Pavel
Written on sharp zaurus, because my Velo1 broke. If you have Velo you don't need...

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