Dumb wrote: > > I don't really have an answer, but sometimes on my machine I have to hold the > button for like 5 seconds before it shuts off, and at other times it just > shuts > off with no problem.
I don't have an answer either, but I have had interesting experiences wrt auto power off. Windows 95 always powered off the computer automatically. I used to have a redhat 5.2 installation with kernel 2.2. When shutting down, the final power off message would appear, but the PC would not turn off by itself. I had to press the power button, but the poweroff would not be simlutaneous with the button press, the poweroff would happen 1/2 a second later. I gave Mandrake 6.0 a try once. It used a 2.2 kernel (.12 I think) and poweroff happened automatically. I was impressed (but I didn't continue using Mandrake because of it). When I first installed Debian potato, I was using the default kernel (2.2.15 I think, potato was 'frozen' at the time). I had the same symptoms as you have - the poweroff message would appear, but the PC wouldn't turn off automatically, and pressing the power button didn't shut it off either. I had to reboot and turn off when the system password prompt appeared (my PC is passworded via the bios). After upgrading the kernel to 2.4.0test7 (I think was the latest 2.4 of the time), I managed to get auto poweroff working. I'm now using 2.4.1 and auto poweroff works fine. I never tried compiling my own 2.2 kernel (I wanted 2.4s USB stuff, so there was no point at the time), but I may have been able to solve the problem that way as well. So you could try: - compiling your own 2.2 kernel - upgrading to a 2.4 kernel as usual, YMMV Matthew