[parisc-linux] soft power and power light on 712/60

[Michael Wood]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:59:43AM -0600, Derek Ellis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have sort of a weird problem.  I installed Debian 3.0 on Sunday and
> it came up great on my 712/60.  The only problem is the soft-power
> switch doesn't work and the power light flashes while searching for
> the boot device and then goes off once it starts booting.  

I don't know about the light, but a kernel upgrade might help the
switch.  Earlier kernels did not enable the power switch.  Not sure
which version made it work (although I thought the kernel on the Debian
3.0 CDs supported it.)  I haven't had a chance to run parisc linux for a
while, unfortunately, and the D270 I was using did nothing when the
power switch was switched, although the kernel I was running was
supposed to enable it, so maybe the kernel doesn't enable it for all
parisc machines?  (The switch did work in HPUX and I think it even
worked at some point in Linux and later stopped.)

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Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>