How can I put my system on standby (ie shutdown HD, write RAM to file, put monitor on standby)

Also

When I shutdown Linux thru KDE, it does to a terminal screen, shuts down the HD and CDROM, and it says on the screen "Power Down". Then I have to hold the power button for 5 seconds until it shuts off.

How can I shut it down completely.

"standby" is still experimental in linux (it is done through the linux kernel)

as for automatic shutdown, you will need to recompile your kernel and enable acpi support (build it into the kernel, not as modules)

check out the kernel recompile guide at the top of the slackware forum on this site

slackware then has a script that will autodetect acpi and get it running

Eeek! Recompileing Kernal? Sound dangerous... I'll give it a shot. Sounds like a good learning experiance!

For your total shut down problem try going to your bios and make sure your enabled there....

Greg

I think BIOS is okay, as I was able to do it with XP. Thanks for the input though! ( :

You don't need to recompile your kernel!

You can have your computer shut down automatically by using apm (instead of acpi) too, just load the module "modprobe apm", and it should work

Thanks. I will try it out and see how it works! ( :

modprobe apm worked! Thanks!

modprobe apm worked, but the next time I boot up, I have to run the command again in order to get it to work. How can I run it one time, and get it to work every time I boot up?

When linux boots up it reads from various scripts. In slack there's a script in /etc/rc.d/ called rc.local. I'd assume you could put the modprobe command in there and it would run. Haven't tested it, not 100% sure, but if it's not that script surely another one will work. I'm guessing local runs after the boot is 99% complete so it'd probably be the right place....

preclose

preclose: yea that would work,

also kernel recompile! (don't worry, just get the kernel sources used by Slackware, it should be configured already)

go into /usr/src/linux (linux source tree) and type
make menuconfig
now go into general (i think thats were its at) and search around till you find a place for power management or arm or anything like that, then look for a option for arm, if its the one your looking for there will be a "M" before it (this tells it to make it a module), now highlight it and press "y" with no quotes, then go to exit, and you should be back at the main menu, scroll all the way down to exit, then it asks if you want to save, hit yes (think is different from that save option you can select before exiting)

now type
make {bzImange,modules,modules_install)
cp (System.map,arch/i386/boot/bzImage} /boot
lilo


if you don't use lilo as the boot loader, then ask someone how it install a new kernel image with it

Thanks, I found the rc.local thing on google a little while ago and it did work. Thanks for the reply.