On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 22:09 +0800, majie wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using Linux kernel 2.6.21.5-smp(Slackware 12). I experience an > error when I turn off my computer. It doesn't turn off itself (maybe > called going into G2/S5 Soft Off in the specification) after printing > a message "acpi_power_off called". I have to press the power button > for several seconds to turn it off. I think the CPUs may be running in > full speed because I hear my fan running in high speed. > > I tried to find out the problem by adding some printk()'s to the > function acpi_enter_sleep_state()(in > linux-2.6.21.5\drivers\acpi\hardware\hwsleep.c). And It shows that it > runs into the final do-while loop in the function and doing an > infinite loop. Maybe this is why my CPUs are running in full speed. > > I don't have the ability to debug the kernel. So this is the only > information I can provide about the code. If you want me to post my > hardware spec or anything else, I'm very glad to, but please tell me > which command and arguments should I use to get the info. > > I have tried the kernel options, but they don't work for me. My laptop > can shut down flawlessly when using windows xp. > > By the way, It's a linux distribution independent problem because I > also experienced it in kubuntu 7.10. Will you please attach the output of acpidump? The latest dump tool (20070116) can be found in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils/ Thanks. Yakui > I'm truly grateful for your help. > Thank you very much. > > ----- > Best regards, > majie > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html