laptop doesn't power off

[Ian Smith]

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Tim Matthews wrote:
 > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:39 PM, b. f. <bf1783 at googlemail.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > Before going to the trouble of enabling full debugging, what are the
 > > output of "uname -a", "kldstat -v", and "sysctl hw.acpi" ?
 > >
 > > b.

b.'s well onto it .. just a couple of things noticed in passing:

 > %uname -a
 > FreeBSD tim-laptop 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #2: Tue May  5 20:51:55
 > NZST 2009     root at tim-laptop:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

Did you recompile GENERIC?  Is it still vanilla?

 >  4    1 0xffffffff80d5f000 1b70     acpi_sony.ko
 >     Contains modules:
 >         Id Name
 >          5 acpi/acpi_sony

Have you tried it without loading acpi_sony?  (just another vector)

 > %sysctl hw.acpi
 > hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state: S3 S4 S5
 > hw.acpi.power_button_state: S5
 > hw.acpi.sleep_button_state: S3
 > hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE
 > hw.acpi.standby_state: S1
 > hw.acpi.suspend_state: S3
 > hw.acpi.sleep_delay: 1
 > hw.acpi.s4bios: 0

So you couldn't have expected acpiconf -s 4 to work (earlier reference)

 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 58.9C
 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz1.temperature: 59.9C
 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz2.temperature: 59.9C

That's almost uncanny ..

cheers, Ian