Re: [expert] It won't power off

[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 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.

Not sure this is totally correct. True in that ACPI function is not compilied into the ML kernel, as indicated in file /boot/config. But I've tested two motherboards with acpi and the apmd program works fine with these motherboards. The motherboards used were 1. Abit KG7-Raid and 2. Abit VP6. Both systems will go into suspend and shutdown fully and correctly. I should state that the Abit VP6 will when not booting with the smp kernel as apm is turned off in this kernel as not being safe.

Larry

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





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