Re: Power off NOT working, kernel 2.4.16
bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:09:59 -0500
In article <20020117102302.A19119@pern.dea.icai.upco.es> you write:
| On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:45:13AM +0200, Joonas Koivunen wrote:
| >
| > Yes, it's there, and I have also tried poweroff, no effect, last text
| > line I see is 'Power down.' and the system is succefully halted, not
| > switched off.
|
| I have the same problem on my home box (Athlon with AMD mo-bo). RedHat
| compiled kernel _do_ poweroff (although with a flashing oops just before
| power goes off), but none of vanillas kernel can do it --- I tried with and
| without ACPI, with APM real-mode call, whatever.
I've had that problem with my BP6 for so long I stopped complaining.
Time to start again, I guess.
WHINE
There, now I feel better ;-) Really annoying, though, to have to boot
NT just to turn the machine off.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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