Re: Power off NOT working, kernel 2.4.16

[David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 08:09:59AM -0500, bill davidsen wrote:
> 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.

Ever tried holding the power-button for 3 seconds?!


/David
  _                                                                 _
 // David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> /> Northern lights wander      \\
//  Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel   //  Dance across the winter sky //
\>  http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/    </   Full colour fire           </