ACPI

[bpark]

Hellmasker,

I am using the latest stable kernel 2.6 with Debian testing/unstable. As I really love this distro (am eager to try gentoo), I'd like to set this up first. As far as I can remember, I believe that all of the ACPI features were turned on excluding the experimental features. Last thing I can say is that the message on the screen (when turning off) stops at acpi_off.

[Hellmasker]

ok, i found a new thign that might be wrong.

do u have the acpi packages installed. I didnt even know there were such things but they show up in an rpm search.

im just guessing here but it could work.

[bpark]

Well, several thoughts here:

1. Since apcid is a daemon, it'll be stopped before the acpi_off function is called.
2. Installed acpid, didn't help.

Would it be possible for you to list what you compiled under ACPI in the kernel?

[Hellmasker]

yep, /me goes looking for kernel config file.

[Hellmasker]

#
# ACPI Support
#
CONFIG_ACPI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BUS=y
CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PCI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
CONFIG_ACPI_AC=m
CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=m
CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=m
CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=m
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=m
CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=m
# CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS is not set
# CONFIG_ACPI_TOSHIBA is not set
# CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_ACPI_RELAXED_AML=y
CONFIG_ACPI_INITRD=y

although since ur having problems u might want to change debug to yes.

[bpark]

The things that looks like is missing from my kernel (2.6) is CONFIG_ACPI_INITRD and CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP. I believe the latter is included only as an experimental feature. Which kernel source are you usiung? I think at this point, I'm going to have to try and turn the debug option to see if I can figure anything out. Do you know where I can find the debug messages after I recompile for ACPI?

By the way, I really appreciate you helping me out here.

[bpark]

Just found some interesting stuff out. After reading the README file for my Nvidia drivers at ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Li....0-5336/README
(scroll all the way down), it looks like Nvidia cards don't have ACPI support. Could this be the reason why my 'power supply' doesn't shutdown when I run the shutdown command?

[bpark]

I've just enabled the debugging feature in my newest kernel. After doing a "grep -i acpi kern.log", this is the result.

Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000fffc000 - 000000000ffff000 (ACPI data)
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000ffff000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS)
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS ) @ 0x000f5e80
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS A7S333 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x0fffc000
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS A7S333 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x0fffc0b2
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS A7S333 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x0fffc030
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: MADT (v001 ASUS A7S333 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x0fffc058
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 ASUS A7S333 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040116
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: tbxface-0117 [03] acpi_load_tables : ACPI Tables successfully acquired
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI Namespace successfully loaded at root c037e17c
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: evxfevnt-0093 [04] acpi_enable : Transition to ACPI mode successful
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 9
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 9
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: acpi_processor-2210 [29] acpi_processor_get_inf: Invalid PBLK length [5]
Mar 5 10:20:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1)

Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this? My PSU doesn't shutoff when I run this command.

Also, this is the last message when the system is shutting down:

Power Down
acpi_power_off called
hwsleep_0265 [24] acpi_enter_sleep_state: Entering sleep state [S5]