In response to Guy Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Guy Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Bill Moran wrote: > >> > >>> A reboot causes the OS to halt, but the hardware just sits there on the > >>> shutdown screen. > >>> > >>> A shutdown -p does the same. > >>> > >>> Other ACPIish stuff seems to work as advertised. (i.e. hitting the power > >>> button cleanly shuts down the OS) > >>> > >>> I'm posting this to stable@, but the same behaviour occurs with FreeBSD > >>> 6.1-RELEASE as well. > >>> > >> Does setting "hw.acpi.handle_reboot" to 1 via sysctl help? If set, this > >> variable will use ACPI to perform the reboot action via the reset > >> register instead of using the keyboard controller or a triple fault to > >> reboot. > > > > I manually changed that setting and the behaviour did not change. > > Does the setting need set before the kernel boots? > > > The value of that parameter is checked at runtime so you should be able > to set it while the system is running. Do you get an "ACPI reset > failed" message on the console?
No. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
