Shutdown hangs at: "ACPI_power_off_called".

[Bill Stoye]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 14:30 +0200, Markus Kolb wrote:
> On 09.10.2004 01:49, Bill Stoye wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 13:50 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >  
> > 
> >>>>Try booting with (each individually) "noapic", "pci=noacpi", "acpi=off" and
> >>>>see if any of those help.
> > 
> > 
> > I tried the above parameters plus acpi=force as suggested by Darren
> > Critchley; still unable to shutdown/power off without holding the power
> > button for ten seconds.
> > 
> > Bill
> 
> What does the kernel report about ACPI during bootup?
> You can run the command dmesg as the first command after boot to see 
> kernel messages again.

"bill at skiffworks ~ $ dmesg
-APIC #2 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................
IO APIC #2......
.... register #00: 02000000
.......    : physical APIC id: 02
.......    : Delivery Type: 0
.......    : LTS          : 0
.... register #01: 00178003
.......     : max redirection entries: 0017
.......     : PRQ implemented: 1
.......     : IO APIC version: 0003
.... IRQ redirection table:"

> 
> Is it possible that your computer doesn't support ACPI?
> Maybe you should try APM.

It was shutting down fine until I installed 'nvidia' driver.

How do I try APM?

Does it help it know it reboots fine. ??

Thanks for your thoughts and help on this.
Bill




> 
> Markus
>