Fedora core 6 soft power down option
 

Greetings, I recently downloaded and installed FC6 and am tweaking the system. When I select shutdown my computer goes through the procedure, I get the system halted message, but the computer does not power down. I remember seeing something about acpm when selecting optional packages, but did not select it. I have been looking through the menus, but do not see anything about a soft power down option. I checked my BIOS settings, everything looks correct there. Do I need to install acpm? Thanks in advance.

Assuming you use grub as your boot loader, edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file and find the line that looks something like this:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.xx-x.xxxx.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/

and edit it to add the extra options shown here:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.xx-x.xxxx.fc6 acpi=off apm=on apm=power-off ro root=LABEL=/

Then reboot. This should now power off your PC when you shut down. It works for me.

Rob

Tha worked. Its always something simple, right? Thanks for the help.