Thank you very much Rolf for your prompt answer.
I'll try it at home later. BTW, it's MDK 9.0.
Cheers,
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
> Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
> > Hi List!
> >
> > I bought a mobo with via chipset KM266. Under WinXP power down
> > works ok and my computer switch off.
> >
> > However, under Linux, shutdown process stop in the screen with
> > "Power down..." message. I know I can safely press switch off power
> > button but if it could do it automatically...
> >
> > My mobo (K7VM2 ASRock) has ACPI support. I tried "append
> > acpi=off" at lilo, not worked.
> >
> > Maybe does someone have any tip? Many thanks in advance.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> What version of (Mandrake?) are you talking about? I have had such
> problems, which seemed related, at least in part, to version, BIOS, or
> both. For instance, at one point (~8.1), on a via kx133 board, I had to
> edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt, changing
>
> HALTARGS="-i -d -p"
> [ -f /poweroff -o ! -f /halt ] && HALTARGS="$HALTARGS -p"
>
> to
>
> HALTARGS="-i -d"
> [ -f /poweroff -o ! -f /halt ] && HALTARGS="$HALTARGS -p"
>
> IIRC. It has been some time and I don't know why this worked but the
> answer turned up from a search at Google Groups.
>
> I don't know how related the next is as it is an AliMagik1 Iwill XP333-R
> but, in 9.0, I would get a kernel panic at power down, which was solved
> by recompiling a kernel and changing only to the following switch:
> CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y
> The help for that switch says to try for a buggy BIOS that has trouble
> powering down. After I upgraded my BIOS, with the newer cooker kernels,
> this switch is not required to be on.
>
> In 9.1, the default kernel switch at boot will be acpi=off (as of rc1,
> anyway), as many laptops are having trouble with the new acpi
> implementation. For my desktop, this switch causes the kernel panic at
> power off but it works if I remove it from my boot menu.
>
> rolf
>
>
>
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Alan Wilter S. da Silva
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Laborat�rio de F�sica Biol�gica
Instituto de Biof�sica Carlos Chagas Filho
Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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