Messages in this thread | | | From | Christian Schoenebeck <> | Subject | Re: power off (again) | Date | Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:06:11 +0200 |
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>>> please cc me, I'm offlist <<<
Am Freitag, 19. April 2002 17:52 schrieb Rob Landley: > On Friday 19 April 2002 08:58 am, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 18. April 2002 23:02 schrieb Trever L. Adams: > > > Just out of curiosity, have you changed your power off scripts to > > > reflect: "halt -p". > > > > Yes, this is not the problem > > Just thought I'd give a "me too" response. The Red Hat 7.2 kernel powers > down all three systems I've tried it on (a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, a > Toshiba Tecra 8000, and an SIS chipset motherboard). The 2.4.18 and 2.4.17 > kernels do NOT power down any of those systems (It will spins down the hard > drive instead, but the system power stays on. Yes, I'm compiling in the > right APM support. I've tried it both with and without the "use APM bios > to power down" switch.) >
And I already thought I was the only one having that problem.
Meanwhile Wolfgang Loeffler told me the possibility that power off also won't work if you enabled SMP on a uniprocessor machine. It wasn't a solution for my machine as I haven't compiled the kernel with SMP support, but maybe it's one for yours. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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