On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 02:03:52PM -0400, Don Hayward wrote: > Hey garrone -- I finally got around to shutting my system down. > Confirming that your discovery worked perfectly. > > On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, garrone wrote: > > >On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 04:40:02PM -0400, Don Hayward wrote: > >>On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, garrone wrote: > >> > >>>Shutdown problem on Tyan tiger s2875 dual opteron system. > >>> > >>>The command "shutdown -h" does not completely poweroff the system > >>>for kernels 2.6.11, 2.6.12, and 2.6.16. However 2.6.8 does > >>>turn off as it should! > >>> > <snip> > > > >Just had a win on this, while attempting to get ACPI timers going > >for mythtv. > > > >If a value is written to /proc/acpi/alarm, then shutdown -h works! > >This confirms my view that buggy bios firmware is the culprit. > <snip> > > I just did: > > echo 1 > /proc/acpi/alarm; shutdown -h now > > > and blink - it went down. Thanks very much. > > Don > -- > Don.Hayward at pomobuli.net
Thanks for the note. I reakon it must be a firmware bug. I must say I have it turning itself on and off automatically for mythtv, and it works perfectly, far exceeding my initial expectations. Having started a thread bagging this board, I must recommend it. Peter Garrone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
