Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donna and Matthew Persico wrote on Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:12:49PM -0500 : # If APM isn't supported by the kernel, try loading the module... [ -e /proc/apm ] || /sbin/modprobe apm /dev/null Sigh. Now I have to figure out modprobe. Oh well. Pass

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread Thomas K. Gamble
On Sunday 24 November 2002 10:46 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Have you ensured that you have apmd program installed? man apm man apmd apmd won't work on newer ACPI systems, and I seem to recall that ACPI support is not compiled into the kernel by default (at least not on Mandrake distributions).

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ronald J. Hall wrote on Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 11:25:28AM -0500 : I couldn't tell you why my Shuttle works and the other 2 don't. Maybe someone like Todd can? ;-) Try passing noacpi to the kernel. APM is the first generation power management

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread Larry Sword
Thomas K. Gamble wrote: On Sunday 24 November 2002 10:46 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Have you ensured that you have apmd program installed? man apm man apmd apmd won't work on newer ACPI systems, and I seem to recall that ACPI support is not compiled into the kernel by default (at least

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 25 November 2002 01:47 pm, you wrote: Try passing noacpi to the kernel. APM is the first generation power management hardware/software. ACPI is the second generation power management hardware/software. If the system boots with ACPI enabled, it automatically disables APM. See if

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:22:52 -0800, Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Thomas K. Gamble wrote: On Sunday 24 November 2002 10:46 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Have you ensured that you have apmd program installed? man apm man apmd Well, the man pages were there. The RPMS were not. So in installed

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread James Sparenberg
Since it's only 1k I attached my apmd. Put this in /etc/init.d/ then to set it up to start at boot chkconfig --level 35 apmd on will get you going. James On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 17:34, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:22:52 -0800, Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Thomas

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread Donna and Matthew Persico
On 25 Nov 2002 18:54:25 -0800, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Since it's only 1k I attached my apmd. Put this in /etc/init.d/ then to set it up to start at boot chkconfig --level 35 apmd on will get you going. Yes it will except for one teeeny problem I've discovered. no

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread James Sparenberg
well proc/apm doesn't exist until you boot with apm. or start it via init.d... as for kernel support I'm running both a stock kernel and a custom one. (mods for somthing else I needed) and apm is there ... does /etc/sysconfig/apmd and /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts exist? James On Mon,

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-24 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:07:50 -0700, Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: On Saturday 23 November 2002 07:24 pm, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-24 Thread Donna and Matthew Persico
On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with your linux install. At this point I would suggest checking your BIOS for power off options, as well as seeing what the current power

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-24 Thread PlugHead
A co-worker of mine experienced a similar problem w/ a Compaq laptop. I believe that the solution turned out to be re-building the kernel w/ the latest ACPI driver. I'll ask him if he has any additional insight... -Jason On Sunday 24 November 2002 08:58 pm, Donna and Matthew Persico wrote:

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-24 Thread Larry Sword
Have you ensured that you have apmd program installed? man apm man apmd Matthew O. Persico wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:07:50 -0700, Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: On Saturday 23 November 2002 07:24 pm, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL

[expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
I have a Pentium4 box that used to hold XP. When XP shut down, it turned the box off. I moved XP to another box and installed Mandrake. When I execute poweroff as root, the os is stopped and the last thing the console says is Power down but the power does not go off. Since it

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Paul Kaplan
What about: shutdown -h now ? Paul On Sunday 24 November 2002 01:27 am, Matthew O. Persico wrote: I have a Pentium4 box that used to hold XP. When XP shut down, it turned the box off. I moved XP to another box and installed Mandrake. When I execute poweroff as root, the os is stopped

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 01:42:54 +, Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: What about: shutdown -h now ? Paul Nope. It still stops at Power down and does not shutoff. That's why I thought /sbin/poweroff was the answer. It ain't. On Sunday 24 November 2002 01:27 am, Matthew O. Persico wrote: I

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Nelson Bartley
Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with your linux install. At this point I would suggest checking your BIOS for power off options, as well as seeing what the current power save options are at. Check your ACPI options in your BIOS as well. You

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with your linux install. At this point I would suggest checking your BIOS for power off options, as well as seeing what the current power

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 13:24, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with your linux install. At this point I would suggest checking your BIOS for

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 23 November 2002 10:41 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 13:24, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with your linux install. At

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 23 November 2002 07:24 pm, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with your linux install. At this point I would suggest checking your