On 4-11-2002, at 20h 51'37", iain d broadfoot wrote to debian-laptop about "Re: poweroff and reboot" > Dominik Juszczyk wrote: > >Hi > > > >Firstly about hardware: Sony Vaio PCG-FX215 with Debian Woody installed > > > >I have problem with reboot. When I want to reboot my laptop, it is > >rebooting, but after that it shows only Sony welcome message, and than > >stops. To make it work I have to press power button for few seconds, and > >turn it on again. > >When I want to turn it off, it shows me power down, and than I have to > >turn it of with power buton. > > > >I have compiled in APM support for BIOS, and Power Managment (kernel > >2.4.18), I'm using lilo, but in lilo.conf I have no entries about power. > > > >Does anyone know what to do with that?? > > > > > > either type linux noapic at the prompt, or put the line > > append="noapic" > > in yer lilo.conf >
Recompile the kernel with the acpi patch. That solves most of the problems of vaio's laptops. Mugurel
