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Problems with an old IBM
I am using an IBM 300PL YOM2000 type 6862-T2A with a Pentium III CPU (aka -i686) 550MHz and 384 Mb RAM. It runs Slackware 11 without drama
apart from not allowing Power Off after LogOff and Ctrl-Alt-Del either
side of a quite narrow time window at "Reboot".
In Slack 12, 49 times out of 50, after LogOff from the Desktop the
screen goes blank as usual then the monitor "On/Off" LED indicates loss
of video drive (by flashing) and the box will not respond to the On/Off
button. I have to kill it at the GPO. Selection of Alt-F(x) to go to a VT usually does the same thing but this was never a problem in Slack 11.
In Redhat Fedora there was no problem; in fact the only good thing
about that distro was that you could switch it off from the desktop.
I had tried Ubuntu previously; it also allowed reliable shut down with the keyboard.
The point is that there is circuitry inside the box to permit keyboard closedown but Slack12 seems to have made it unstable/unreliable.
Can anybody help?
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