On 10:34 Sat 17 Jan , Tom Eastman wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 01:53, Bill Roberts wrote: > > On 22:07 Fri 16 Jan , Tom Eastman wrote: > > > Ever since I installed gentoo on my new computer in October I've been > > > frustrated when I try to shut it down. > > > > Have you tried the "poweroff" command. Works for me. > > As I understand it, 'poweroff' is equivalent to calling 'halt -p' which the > shutdown process already does. The problem is that the computer only > actually turns itself off about half the time. > > I have both ACPI and APM enabled in the kernel. Although because my cpu is > hyperthreading I get this warning in the kernel messages: > > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) > apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe. > > I have also tried using CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF in the kernel config, > but just ended up getting the same results. > > It's frustrating, because it works about half the time. So I know that it > *can* turn my computer off. I just don't know what's preventing it! > > Tom > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Tom I had never been able to get Gentoo to poweroff for me as other distros did, until I found the poweroff command. Just wasn't a big deal, so I never really researched it. But.... I was delighted when I used "poweroff" and it shut down, completely. I am using the 2.6 kernel, ACPI is on, APM is off. Everything seems to work great without the APM, so... -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
