Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittant poweroff failure

2004-01-17 Thread Elton Algera
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 09:21, Elton Algera wrote: > On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 11:34, 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 w

Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittant poweroff failure

2004-01-17 Thread Elton Algera
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 11:34, 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 "pow

Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittant poweroff failure

2004-01-16 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:10:56 -0500 Bill Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 "

Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittant poweroff failure

2004-01-16 Thread Tom Eastman
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:57, Rust wrote: > Try to install 2.4 kernel. If it works fine, then there might be a bug > in 2.6 kernel. If it's so, then you have to post in linux kernel mailing > list instead of this. Unfortunately that's not really an option since I'm running XFS, the newer ALSA, and e

Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittant poweroff failure

2004-01-16 Thread Bill Roberts
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 "powerof

Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittant poweroff failure

2004-01-16 Thread Rust
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 12:34, Tom Eastman wrote: > 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittant poweroff failure

2004-01-16 Thread Tom Eastman
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'

Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittant poweroff failure

2004-01-16 Thread Rust
Hi. I had this problem too. Try to change config of your kernel in Power managment -> APM section. According to help, some of options here are appointed for proper work with buggy BIOSes. Read help. This is my config, if it helps you. CONFIG_APM=y CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND=y CONFIG_APM_DO

Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittant poweroff failure

2004-01-16 Thread Roy Kidder
Bill Roberts said: > 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. > Forgive me for not seeing the original post, but I'm assu

Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittant poweroff failure

2004-01-16 Thread Bill Roberts
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. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Intermittant poweroff failure

2004-01-16 Thread Tom Eastman
Ever since I installed gentoo on my new computer in October I've been frustrated when I try to shut it down. At the end up the shutdown sequence, the computer has only about a 50/50 chance of powering itself off correctly, the other half the time, it merely stops with the 'Power Off' message.