Linux & Windows halts successfully on HP Pavilion dv6312, while FreeBSD sometimes fails the same as OpenBSD. OpenSolaris rarely fails.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Thomas Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:49:52 +0100 > Thomas Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:04:46 -0500 > > Marco Peereboom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 04:30:39PM +0100, Thomas Pfaff wrote: > > > > Ubuntu 8.04 (Linux 2.6.24-19) powers down my system just fine > > > > with halt -p (see previous post for details). > > > > > > Alrighty I'll look at that code (ugh!). > > > > While we're at it, I just brought up another system and halt -p > > does not work here either. Stuck at "Attempting to power down..." > > Disabling apm made the system power off and then it attempted to > start up again, but the screen was blank and nothing was happening. > The lights where on, but there was nobody home, so to speak. > > > I can try installing NetBSD and see if it works there. Might > > be less painful to look through their code than Linux ;-) > > NetBSD 4.0/i386 shuts down just fine with halt -p on this machine. > > > OpenBSD 4.5 (GENERIC) #1749: Sat Feb 28 14:51:18 MST 2009 > > [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC > > cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 256KB L2 cache) > 1.53 GHz > > cpu0: > FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE > > real mem = 267939840 (255MB) > > avail mem = 250789888 (239MB) > [...]
