From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 27 19:15:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F2E01065676 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:15:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerry@marles.org) Received: from mailforwards.extendcp.co.uk (mailforwards.extendcp.co.uk [79.170.40.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A39708FC1D for ; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:15:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from marles.demon.co.uk ([83.104.58.197] helo=[192.168.1.150]) by mailforwards.extendcp.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) id 1NE6IJ-0007t3-Ui for freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:15:52 +0000 From: Jerry Marles To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1259276524.5208.55.camel@lenny.internal> References: <1257676862.3860.14.camel@lenny.internal> <200911241309.30193.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <1259276524.5208.55.camel@lenny.internal> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:15:48 +0000 Message-Id: <1259349348.3058.27.camel@lenny.internal> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: HP Pavillion does not power off X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:15:54 -0000 On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 23:02 +0000, Jerry Marles wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 13:09 -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > On Sunday 08 November 2009 05:41 am, Jerry Marles wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have a HP Pavillion desktop PC model g3001.uk. The problem I have > > > is that halt -p does not power it off. The light on the power > > > button goes off but I can hear that it is still running. If I hold > > > down the power button for a few seconds the power can be heard to > > > go off but then it boots right back up again. Windows and Linux can > > > power it off successfully. > > > > I have a hunch that your SSDT is broken. In fact, it looks little > > unusual. Have you tried to update your BIOS? You seem to have two > > year old BIOS and it claims it only complies with ACPI 1.0, which has > > been dead for many years. :-) > > > > BTW, 'holding down power button for a few seconds' performs emergency > > shutdown sequence, which is usually done without ACPI intervention. > > > > Jung-uk Kim > > That sounded like a reasonable idea so I checked and found that there is > a more recent bios available. I downloaded it and attempted to install > it and it said that it would not install because I am not running Vista. > I scrapped Vista shortly after buying the PC for obvious reasons. I got > the PC cheap because it only had 512Mb of memory and Vista, Not a good > combination but not a problem to me because I did not intend to use > Vista. So I thought I would restore the PC using the recovery DVD that I > purchased for just these sort of circumstances. I took it out of the > sealed envelope that it came in and tried to boot from it for the first > time. It ran part way through and failed with a hex code but no error > message of any use. I expected it to partition and format my primary > disk but it also did the same to the disk that I had added with Linux > and FreeBSD on which struck me as excessively destructive. So it totally > wiped out my PC and still has not given me Vista to enable me to install > the bios update. Fortunately I have not lost anything of any importance > because I keep all that on a separate FreeBSD server. My point is that > if Windows, Linux and Solaris can work work quite happily on this bios > as it stands then the problemn lies in FreeBSD and that is what I would > like to solve because that it the operating system that I would choose > to run if only it could power off my PC. Otherwise Debian seems like the > best OS for a desktop PC. The more I try to work this out the more I realise that I have bitten off more than I can chew. This problem has turned out to be far more trouble to solve than it is worth to me. I think I will just forget it. Perhaps I am just not cut out to be a kernel hacker. I will continued to run FreeBSD on other hardware. I would just like to thank the people that have tried to help me, it was much appreciated. Regards Jerry