Re: poweroff and reboot

[iain d broadfoot <ibroadfo@cis.strath.ac.uk>]

Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote:
> 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

the freeze at boot problem is an apic bug (at least on fx405s)

but yes, acpi is nice too, just remember to install the acpi packages.

iain