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The Saturday 2006-12-16 at 11:08 -0500, BandiPat wrote:
> Anyone have any luck in finding the problem causing 10.2 not to power
> down the machine? As a couple of others here have had happen, I too
> installed 10.2, but it will not power off the computer. It
> will "shutdown", but not power off as with earlier versions. It's a
> reasonably new mobo of which I've never had a problem with before with
> any of the versions of SUSE since 7.2. The acpi is rock solid, has
> always worked except for the present build. Kernel? Something else?
I had a similar problem with 7.something, time ago. It would not power
off, I had to wait half a year for the next version to solve the problem.
It worked previously, and it worked later.
> I remember seeing some errors during bootup about loading some kernel
> modules, but don't remember what they were.
You should check them. They should be in /var/log/boot.something.
> Ok, answering my own email.
I was going to say that you sent it twice :-P
> Maybe this will help others, maybe not. It
> seems that either the kernel or SUSE's kernel or SUSE in general is
> using more of the computer's BIOS settings than before.
>
> I decided to try an experiment by changing the BIOS setting of "ACPI
> aware OS?" to yes. It has always been no until 10.2, because basically
> Linux pays very little attention to BIOS settings. Doesn't seem to be
> the case now, because making this change makes the computer power off
> normally.
Interesting.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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