[ltp] T42 won't power off after shutdown/halt/poweroff

[Greg Meyer]

On Sunday 19 September 2004 09:34 am, J.V. wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Thank you very much for all the ideas.  I was finally able to get this to
> work!
>
> I upgraded to 2.6.8.1-10mdk from cooker and nolapic still hung at:
>
>    Calibrating delay loop...
>
> I also noticed that when using nolapic, a message appears during bootup:
>
>    Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
>    Found and enabled local APIC!
>
> So I downloaded the source from cooker, changed the kernel config and
> after recompiling kernel-2.6.8-1-10 w/o apic, that finally worked and
> the system powers off completely when I shutdown.
>
> Here's a diff from my .config and Mandrake's .config:
>
> 98c98,101
> < # CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC is not set
> ---
>
> > CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
> > CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y
> > CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
> > CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
>
> 101a105
>
> > CONFIG_X86_MCE_P4THERMAL=y
>
> 215a220
>
> > # CONFIG_PCI_MSI is not set
>
> 242a248
>
> > CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_IBM=m
>
> 2851a2858,2859
>
> > CONFIG_X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG=y
> > CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE=y
>
Thanks for posting this.  It is good to know it worked because I planned on 
doing this once 10.1 settled on a release kernelwas released, which it now 
is.
-- 
/g