Re: Tyan S2462 reboot problems

[David Weinehall]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:14:12PM -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> No, I doubt this has anything to do with Linux.   I have a S2460
> (which his corrected post says he has), which does not power down
> under linux, and *never* warm boots cleanly.  It does power down under
> windows, so I assume ACPI powerdown works and APM does not.  I have
> gone under the assumption that a BIOS upgrade will fix this, but that
> involves putting a floppy into the box, so I haven't done it yet.  The
> warm boot problems consist of either a hang after POST (but before
> bootloader, OS irrelevent), or really bad video corruption.  I don't
> know if it boot with the video corruption, I've never let it try.

Uhm, no, you don't need a floppy in your computer to upgrade the BIOS;
I upgraded it for this TYAN 2466 today, using /dev/bios
<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/OpenBIOS/status/devbios.html>
and it worked perfectly fine.

That said, using the in-kernel ACPI should probably work for powerdown.

Regards: David Weinehall
  _                                                                 _
 // David Weinehall <[e-mail]> /> Northern lights wander      \\
//  Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel   //  Dance across the winter sky //
\>  http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/    </   Full colour fire           </