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 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 will find that XP can shutdown a great many systems
> > >that would not normally shutdown on their own, however linux can
> > >sometimes get hung up little bios glitches.
> >
> > Damn. You mean Billware is better at something than Torvaldsware is?
> > Sigh.
>
> Getting computers to stop working in many different ways is what W$ is all
> about!
<smile>
I've got 3 different motherboard/chipsets here:
Shuttle
Gigyabyte
Soyo
Of the 3, only the Shuttle MB shuts down - the other 2 wind up with a system
halted message where its safe to turn it off.
Also, on those 2 that don't shutdown - I had to go into
/etc/rc.d/init.d/
and edit the file "halt"
Specifically, the -p had to be taken out of this line:
HALTARGS="-i -d -p"
(its very near the bottom of the file) otherwise, when you shutdown, it
resulted in a scrolling (nonstop) screen full of text.
I couldn't tell you why my Shuttle works and the other 2 don't. Maybe someone
like Todd can? ;-)
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