> "Derek Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is it normal that my power button doesn't work? > > After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a > > message saying > > "Power down." > > However, when I hit the power button, the computer just beeps but > > still stays on. The only thing I can then do is a VERY hard reset: > > take out the batteries (it's a laptop, compaq contura 400c) and unplug > > it. Nothing else responds. This doesn't seem to be the normal way to > > shut off a computer. Just wondering if there is a different way... > > For the moment, I'm just letting it running all the time, however > > there doesn't seem to be a "power saving mode" activated > > automatically, and so the screen stays on all day. Besides, it gets > > rather hot over time - I'm not quite sure if the fan is adequate for > > this. I'm not decided if it's worse for the computer to shut it off > > the "HARD" way or keeping it running all day & night. > > Help would be apreciated. > > A couple of things... > > First, please don't start a new thread by replying to a message on an > old thread. To me it looked like your message was a part of the thread > entitled "wajig: a simple command line interface to Debian package > mgmt". This is because a lot of email/news readers are threaded and > arrange articles by their subject. If you start a new thread by > replying to an existing article your article may be overlooked, or > annoy people who started the original thread. > Thanks for telling me - didn't realize this. I was just to lazy to recopy the e-mail adress, and so thought it was enough to change the subject to change the thread. Won't happen again :-) ... Wow! I just discovered the "newsgroup" capabilities of my mail reader! Now I understand what you mean. I was recieving the mails though my regular account and sending them directly to a "Linux" folder. I guess having the messages arranged as threads makes a BIG diefference... thanks for the tip!
> Second, as someone else stated in a reply to you, you may need to > recompile your kernel with APM support, and if that doesn't work I > think there's an APM option to use real-mode to power off. > What is APM? I still haven't properly set up the laptop - I am still in a somewhat long installation process, so I haven't gotten a compiler yet. Guess that'll be the next thing I'll install. > Third, a lot of laptops don't use a real switch for power off. Instead > it's a soft switch. In general, if the machine doesn't shut itself off > you may need to hold the power button down for as much as 8 seconds to > actually get it to turn off. Even that may not work, but 9 times out > of 10 it has worked for me. > > Good Luck! > Gary > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >