On Thursday, 24. January 2002 12:40, Rasmus Hansen wrote:
Hello Rasmus,
I hope that I've extracted your name right?
>On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Daniel Nofftz wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> >
> > > You see, I'm fiddleing with power saving quite some time.
> >
> > oh ,.. by the way : does dmesg show somthing like "dissconect in via
> > northbridge enabled: kt133 chipset found " or something similar ?
> > (only if you have my patch ativated)
>
> I tried your patch. I get the message above (I have a KT133A). With only
> APM enabled, it makes no difference; witch ACPI, temp goes from 47C ->
> 38C without stability problems nor preformance drops.
This are very good numbers, which I've expected.
> However, after disabling APM and enabling ACPI, my system won't power
> off anymore :-(
This should be easily solved.
I point on your distro's startup scripts. They only look if apm is enabled
but _NOT ACPI...
Have a look into /etc/init.d/halt (taken from SuSE 7.3, LSB standard).
[-]
case "$0" in
*halt)
message="The system will be halted immediately."
case `/bin/uname -m` in
i?86)
command="halt"
if test -e /proc/apm -o -e /proc/acpi ; then <----!!!!
command="halt -p"
else
read cmdline < /proc/cmdline
case "$cmdline" in
*apm=smp-power-off*|*apm=power-off*)
command="halt -p" ;;
esac
fi
;;
*)
command="halt -p"
[-]
Expand the marked line with acpi like above.
Regards,
Dieter
-- Dieter Nützel Graduate Student, Computer ScienceUniversity of Hamburg Department of Computer Science @home: Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jan 31 2002 - 21:00:22 EST