mysterious keyboard, mouse lockups with FC5

[James Wilkinson]

Stephen Liu wrote:
> Poweroff without PC power-off is one of the remaining problem on this
> FC5_64 box.  The cause is adding "noacpi" on kernel option at boot. 
> Without adding it PC will hang frequently.  I don't know whether
> upgrade BIOS will be its solution.  OR there is other remedy.
> 
> Any suggestion?  TIA

Well, there are two ways to do soft power-off. APM doesn't work in SMP
mode, so you'd have to turn off one of your cores (you've got a dual
core box, IIRC).

The other way is APCI.

Yes, getting a new BIOS sounds like the best approach. Otherwise,
there's a small chance that new kernels will be able to work around
whatever bug you're experiencing.

I assume that you've moaned to your vendor...

James.

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