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Re: poweroff and reboot



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



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