xiamin wrote:

> This has been happening for a while now, but I've just gotten around to 
> writting about it.
> On my Q650, running MADHATTER #40, whenever I shutdown -r, instead of 
> coming up with the normal grey screen after shutting down, the screen 
> remains black. Then it plays a little song. I think the song is maybe six 
> notes long,is this the chimes of doom?

Does the song sound a little ominous?  In all likelihood, you are hearing
the death chimes...kind of strange.  That would seem to indicate that
NetBSD is leaving your machine in a very _bad_ state on shutdown.  That
would probably qualify as a bug ;-)  Have you tried any other kernels?  I
believe that the MADHATTER functionality is in -current, so you should be
able to upgrade to -current without losing anything (e.g. X).  

Is anyone else seeing this behavior????

> It's sort of annoying, because I 
> have to do a full shutdown....Though, I suppose byscrewing in the power 
> switch as suggested, I could shutdown -h, and still come back up, maybe. 
> Rebooting from MacOS works fine.

This won't work.  The autoboot feature only works after a power supply
interruption.  If you actually shut down the machine, it will power off
(it would be rather annoying, otherwise).

Anyway, I hope this helps some.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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