System halts but doesnt power down laptop

Boomba · 02-01-2005, 02:39 PM

Hi

i finally got KDE 3.3 installed and It works fine so far except for when I click shutdown at the end of my session..it gives allt he usual message and then it stops at "system halted." and it waits for me to power off my laptop by pushing and holding the power button (for like one second).

it used to power the pc down itself when I had KDE 3.1

any suggestions?

thanx in advance,
Boomba

sporks · 02-01-2005, 02:43 PM

Are you using an ACPI enabled kernel or loading APM?

Spasmolytic · 02-01-2005, 03:23 PM

In order to get my computer to turn off automatically at shutdown I had to do this:

uncomment (or add) this line to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

Quote:

/sbin/modprobe apm

to load it type "modprobe apm"

Boomba · 02-01-2005, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sporks
Are you using an ACPI enabled kernel or loading APM?

I have no clue, how do i find out?

Boomba · 02-02-2005, 09:42 PM

can anyone answer this? I'm still stuck I dont wanna have to push and hold my power button every time I wanna shut off my laptop thats soo 90's hehe.

/etc/rc.d/rc.modules doesnt exist on my laptop..so i couldnt add that line cus it doesnt exist

any help would be greatly apreciated