Shutdown hangs at: "ACPI_power_off_called".

[Bill Stoye]

On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 09:02 -0700, Darren Critchley wrote: 
> Bill Stoye wrote:
> 
> >This stream has withered on the vine as I've been waiting for the full
> >Ubuntu release, in hopes something about this shutdown annoyance was
> >corrected there; I have done the following after the release, besides
> >the daily upgrades leading to it:
> >"sudo apt-get install ubuntu-base ubuntu-desktop"
> >"sudo apt-get install linux-k7"
> >
> >I have tried the following parameters in Grub at bootup: "noapic",
> >"pci=noacpi", "acpi=off", "acpi=force" and "nolapic"; I have been
> >viewing and trying to follow any email that sounded like it pertained to
> >this shutdown problem; Shutdown still hangs at "acpi power off called"
> >
> >Motherboard: SOYO; SY-KT600 DRAGON ULTRA PLTN
> >Processor: AMD Athlon XP 3200
> >
> >The problem started after install "nvidia" driver and continues. It's an
> >annoyance for an otherwise great distribution and have hopes to correct
> >it without doing another installation, however simple. 
> >
> >I was looking for a simpler system than the Libranet that I was using;
> >Libranet is excellent as well, just more than I needed and I was looking
> >towards using the support of the 2.6 kernel.
> >
> >I don't have the ability to troubleshoot this on my own but I am
> >comfortable with a text editor and terminal.
> >
> >  
> >
> It may be your motherboard, I have sveral Soyo SY-K7VEMPRO and I have 
> tried them with lots of different distros, and while it is an excellent 
> windows board, it is a poor player in the Linux arena. I had to do a 
> bios upgrade just to get them stable enough to run Linux and at that, if 
> you put anything faster than 1Gig, you are back to having kernel panics. 
> The video on this particular model was really bad as well, often having 
> weird lines, etc in the screen. I have tried Redhat 7,8,9, Fedora Core 
> 1, Suse, Xandros, Lycoris and Libranet on them.
> 
> I would recommend reading any FAQ's etc at Soyo's site, perhaps consider 
> upgrading the bios as well.
> After our experiences with the above mentioned board, we decided not to 
> purchase any more Soyo boards at our company.

I had read this morning, somewhere in the ubuntu-users email from one of
the frequent responsees, that Soyo boards worked best with AMD
processors, I chose AMD because I read they work so well with Linux.
This particular board was a fairly new product(past winter) from Soyo.

It worked rock solid with Libranet 2.8.1, with the 2.4.25 kernel and it
worked(shutdown) just fine in Ubuntud until I installed the 'nvidia'
driver.

The only BIOS upgrades I find at the SOYO site for my board are .exe
files.

Thanks for your thoughts and help on this.
Bill

> 
> Darren
> 
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