How to REALY shut down the computer?

caphclimber · 09-04-2003, 11:01 AM

I have SuSE 8.1 and ATX mainboard, so I expect that, when I say: shutdown now, linux realy turn off the computer. Insted it say that all the processes have been killed and that te level 6 have been reached or something like that. The monitor is still turned on as well as the computer so, I have to switch the computer off manualy.

So, how to turn it off automaticaly???

Thanks for the answers...

shanenin · 09-04-2003, 11:09 AM

you could try poweroff

quatsch · 09-04-2003, 11:14 AM

You're telling it to shutdown now from the graphical login screen, right? If it is reaching runlevel 6, then your system is setup to reboot when you tell it to shutdown now (and it probably fails to reboot for some reason or other; mine doesn't reboot either when I tell it to). There should be an option somewhere, maybe kde control center, or some other suse sys admin tool, where you can set it to actually shutdown when you tell it to.

Mega Man X · 09-04-2003, 12:08 PM

If I'm not mistaken, you need to load apm module before shutdown. Do this as root:

modprobe apm

Then you do the command you did:

shutdown -h now

If it works, you can add the line modprobe apm at your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules or rc.local, I don't know how it's in Suse

Good luck!

waht · 09-05-2003, 11:05 AM

perhaps you could try putting

init 0

into the command line as root?

caphclimber · 09-08-2003, 11:13 AM

None of this works. I have APM module running, I can turn on and off stand by and the rests in Control Panel, but nothing changes (except standing by the computer, of course!).

Thanks on replys...

wr3ck3d · 09-08-2003, 02:45 PM

#halt -n

I dont have any acpi or apm so it goes as far as just about to turn off. And ends at 'power off'

andrewlkho · 09-08-2003, 02:53 PM

yes, to get from "power off" to actually turning off, you need to have a case that supports APM, and also to have enabled it in the kernel / installed as a module.

caphclimber · 09-08-2003, 08:24 PM

I did it. First, I have turned apm on in grub loader, and shutdown -h worked correctly. But problem was that after a 20 seconds of inactivity my screen was scrabbled with lines and comp was blocked. I tried to change things in sysconfig and apmd_proxy but nothing helped. After about an hour of wasting time with that I have turned off APM an turned on ACPI in GRUB and for now , all is going well...

Thanks...