Re: ACPI "Soft-off" power button only rebooting system, not poweringoff

[Stephen Clark]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Wed 2008-09-17 08:33:50, Andrew Paprocki wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Wed 2008-09-17 00:50:03, Andrew Paprocki wrote:
> > > > I have an AMD / Award BIOS based system which does not properly shut
> > > > off when I hold down the power button for 4 seconds. The BIOS is
> > > > configured to have "Soft-off" set to "Delay for 4 seconds" which is
> > > > supposed to power the machine off if the button is held that long.
> > > >
> > > > I first thought this could be a BIOS bug, but this *only* appears to
> > > > happen while Linux is running. If the computer is running WinXP, it
> > > Well, so the BIOS is broken. 4second hold should power down the
> > > machine regardless of the operating system.
> > Yes, I agree.. I just find it strange that it works on the BIOS screen
> > as well as in GRUB, but as soon as Linux boots, it no longer works.
> > Since it works under WinXP, there must be some way to get it to work
> > properly from the OS side even it if means working around the bug
> > somehow.
>
> Try noapic/nolapic/nosmp etc... and ask your vendor to fix the bios ;-).
Why do you say it is the BIOS when it shuts down properly from the GRUB prompt 
or from in WINXP?

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