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- From: mrhoten@cs.stanford.edu (Matthew Rhoten)
- Subject: Reboot no worky on Gateway Nomad notebook
- Message-ID: <mrhoten.722240803@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
- Summary: No go under 97.3-97.5, 98.5
- Originator: mrhoten@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
- Keywords: notebook reboot hard_reset_now
- Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
- Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
- Date: 20 Nov 92 06:26:43 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- I have a Gateway 2000 Nomad 325SXL. This is a fairly cool little
- notebook, by the way. Linux .97.3 through .97.5 and .98.5 run great on
- it. Hacking on the kernel to switch caps lock and ctrl and removing
- bell was easy. Fun stuff. There is one slight thing which I find a bit
- annoying. I have never gotten linux to reboot the machine.
-
- /etc/reboot and ctrl-alt-del both hung the machine. I had C_A_D on in
- the appropriate kernel Makefile. I added a few printk()s in
- keyboard.c, and found out that hard_reset_now() was in fact getting
- called in either case, which made me think that it didn't work. (That
- also explains the hang, looking at the code for hard_reset_now()). This
- was under .97.5. So I downloaded .98.5 sources, looked at the new
- keyboard.c, and yes, hard_reset_now() had changed. So I compile .98.5,
- and boot it up, no problem. tcsh and setterm and a bunch of other
- binaries I have don't like it, but that's all right. reboot still
- doesn't work, though.
-
- So, my question is, is my hardware sufficiently non-standard that I
- can never expect this to work? The computer uses an AMD chipset; I
- don't know how relevant that is. If someone has patches to the reset
- code that work on this machine, great, please let me know. I'm willing
- to phone up Gateway and hassle them for tech info and specs if
- someone's willing to fix this but needs that sort of thing.
-
- Thanks,
- -matt
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- Matthew Rhoten | mrhoten@cs.stanford.edu | m_rhoten@leland.stanford.edu
- "When Adam and Eve first saw each other, that's when the blues started."
- -John Lee Hooker
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