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gradash

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[SOLVED] old laptop can't normally reboot or shutdown

Hi, i have old HP Compaq nx6225, AMD Turion64, 2 Gb RAM...etc..
It designed for windows XP, and i installed XP, and all works like charm, rebooting, shutdown...
Then i installed Arch Linux, by official guide on arch wiki, nothing configured yet, just fresh install and some grub.cfg edit for dual boot with windows xp.
As root i write "reboot"
it goes to reboot, black screen and that's all... need to hold power button to turn off, and then turn on again...
same with "poweroff", it turns off... but if i turn it on, black screen and nothing happens, i need to hold power button to turn it off again, and then turn on to boot...

this happens only in linux,in windows xp restart and shutdown works normally

and i don't know any log where this info may be stored..

Last edited by gradash (2017-06-29 12:41:49)

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Re: [SOLVED] old laptop can't normally reboot or shutdown

Disbable KMS: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … odesetting

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] old laptop can't normally reboot or shutdown

Sounds more like acpi.
Pass "apm=on acpi=off" to the kernel - apm will liekly work better with ancient HW and I cannot even figure when that device was marketed ... (but "designed for XP" sounds like a decade ago at least?)

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gradash

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Re: [SOLVED] old laptop can't normally reboot or shutdown

Disbable KMS: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … odesetting

nope, not helped...

gradash

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Re: [SOLVED] old laptop can't normally reboot or shutdown

Sounds more like acpi.
Pass "apm=on acpi=off" to the kernel - apm will liekly work better with ancient HW and I cannot even figure when that device was marketed ... (but "designed for XP" sounds like a decade ago at least?)

nope, it hangs with

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Last edited by Trilby (2017-06-27 13:25:49)

Maniaxx

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Re: [SOLVED] old laptop can't normally reboot or shutdown

Try 'reboot=warm,pci' as kernel cmdline option.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ … eters.html

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gradash

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Re: [SOLVED] old laptop can't normally reboot or shutdown

Try 'reboot=warm,pci' as kernel cmdline option.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ … eters.html

nope... tryed many options for "reboot="

but one more, that happens not only in arch... mint, ubuntu, manjaro... same problem
and if i do poweroff, it really turns off, but after that if press power button it turns on, but black screen... need to hold power button to turn off, and than turn on

P.S ctrl+alt+del shuts down, and properly turns on after that

Last edited by gradash (2017-06-28 07:22:48)

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Re: [SOLVED] old laptop can't normally reboot or shutdown

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GR … ramebuffer

Ensure to remove "quiet", instead use "systemd.unit=multi-user.target" or "systemd.unit=rescue.target", try to reboot from there and see whether you get some error messages about the inability to unload modules or similar  ...

Otherwise see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torva … meters.txt on all those fancy acpi related settings, but hitting the cause without knowing it requires luck or time. CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG isn't enabled in the repo kernel.

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gradash

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Re: [SOLVED] old laptop can't normally reboot or shutdown

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GR … ramebuffer

Ensure to remove "quiet", instead use "systemd.unit=multi-user.target" or "systemd.unit=rescue.target", try to reboot from there and see whether you get some error messages about the inability to unload modules or similar  ...

nope, just hits "reached target shutdown" and reboots...to black screen

gradash

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Re: [SOLVED] old laptop can't normally reboot or shutdown

yeeeesh, tried all settings one by one...  acpi=noirq helped now rebooting and poweroff works fine

Last edited by gradash (2017-06-28 13:15:24)