On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:00:27PM -0700, Lu, Yinghai wrote: > 1. need to add acpi support in s2881 LinuxBIOS support to get it. > Anyway 8111 acpi support is already there in Serengeti_leopard, so it > will be easy to get that.
Thanks, I see that halt now powers off the machine properly (svn 2254)! Still has the delays after ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP on boot. Thanks, Ward. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ward Vandewege > Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 3:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LinuxBIOS] some more tyan/s2881 questions > > So the board is stable now. That's great. > > Some observations: > > 1. 'halt' no longer powers the machine off, which it does with the > proprietary bios. 'halt -p' does the job though. LinuxBIOS oddity? > > 2. reboots seem to cause problems sometimes. I'm not sure yet what > causes > this, but I've had problems with the machine hanging after > > ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP > > It normally sits there for a few seconds, but I had the machine in such > a > state that it simply hung at that point. > > This may have had something to do with the IPMI card, which I'm > experimenting > with. I had to unplug the power before this problem went away, a cold > restart > didn't help. I will do more testing to see if I can pinpoint this. > > Thanks for all your help so far! > Ward. > > -- > Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator > > -- > linuxbios mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > > > -- > linuxbios mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > > !DSPAM:443ae48e228441410093335! > -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
