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). You could search the linux-kernel mailing lists archives (http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/) or groups.google.com for more details. > > 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 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. > >> > >>Well.... not better, just different. :) NT, 2000 and XP all do > >> direct hardware access, ignoring CMOS. Or at least it has that > >> ability. I don't think Linux does that. So that could explain the > >> problem. Change your cmos settings just may solve it. > > > >I'd LOVE to change my CMOS settings. I have an Intel D845HV > > motherboard. If anyone is interested, the CMOS settings can be > > found here: > > ftp://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/hv/A6513601.pdf > > > >If anyone can tell me what to change, then you are much smarter than > > I am - I do not see anything that would help... > > > >I'm going to muck with some of the halt settings as mentioned a few > > messages back in this thread. If anyone has had any experience with > > this board and this problem, I'd love to hear it. > > > >Thanks, > > > >-- > >Matthew O. Persico > > > > > > > > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >---- > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Thomas K. Gamble Los Alamos National Laboratory Advanced Diagnostics & Instrumentation (C-ADI) p:505-665-4323 f:505-665-4267 MS-E543
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