[arch-general] Weird behaviour A/C vs battery

[Richard Schütz]

Am 13.08.2011 14:25, schrieb Mauro Santos:
> I've read that the reboot method/commands sent to the hardware were
> being changed to closely mimic what windows does [1], this was meant to
> workaround broken bios which don't comply to a standard and are only
> made and tested to work with windows.
>
> Maybe somehow that is causing the problem for you, I don't know if there
> is any way to use the "old" method but I guess that even if there is
> this is worth a bug report in the kernel bugtracker.
>
> [1] http://mjg59.livejournal.com/137313.html
>

Switching between reboot methods is possible with a kernel parameter. 
There are several methods. May the source [0] be with you.

[0] 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-3.0.y.git;a=blob;f=arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c;h=9242436e9937e5a4ef91c6baa04eaf2e90243125;hb=HEAD#l55

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Regards,
Richard Schütz