turn off doesn't really turn and power off
 

Hello?

I'm using PowerPack 10.1. When I do system "turn off",
this doesn't really turn my system off and power off as
in other distros.

The only options given to me are "reboot" and "halt".

If I, then, do "halt", the very last message I see during
this "halting" is "power down". But again, this doesn't
really turn and power off my system.

So, how can I actually "turn and power off" my system
in PowerPack 10.1?

Thanks.

press the power button :)

Probably some problesm with APM or ACPI (the power managment systems). Find out which you have and recompile the kernel accordingly.

Or press the power button at the end. :)

Hi,
acpi is not enabled, that's why you can't power off for good.
Go into MCC--> System --> Boot parameters (I think, in English) --> tick the acpi box (first option I think)
Then , just shutdown, this time it will power off totally.

cheers

no need to recompile, as previous poster said

Hi marghorp and samael26,

Thanks for your interests. Because the turn off actually
doesn't power off, I actually use the power button on
the system to completely power off.

samael26, I turned on the acpi option (MCC, Boot, Boot
parameters), but this has no effect.

Since this isn't that much of an issue, I'll just manually
power off the system. But, I'll appreciate if someone
has any idea on this without actually recompiling.

Thanks.

Hi,
Check into your BIOS whether it supports ACPI or not. This may just be the issue here.
In case the option is not enabled, just do it. Turning manually off is going to get on
your nerves pretty fast..:p

What kind of mobo are you running on

floppy

Hi samael26 and floppywhopper,

Thanks for your consistent interests in this issue.

Looking at the POST messages, the system BIOS
says it's ACPI compliant BIOS.

And, I'm running Celeron 1.7GHz on Asrock P4AL-800.

Regards,

Okay, but did you go into the BIOS to change your settings if necessary
i.e. enable ACPI, If it isn't ? When you boot , depending on your configuration,
you should be able to enter into BIOS setup by hitting one of the F keys (F2 on
my computer).

Hope that helps
cheers

Hi samael26,

Thanks again for your help.

I looked every "corners" in the CMOS settings, but
there was no place where I explicitly enable/disable
the ACPI setting.

I believe this ACPI compliancy is automatically detected
by the system BIOS during boot.

My BIOS is very first version for the board's model, and
I'll look the manufacturer's website if they have recent
BIOS available. Perhaps, the later BIOS might have
an option to enable/disable the ACPI setting among
others explicitly.

Regards,

Hi samael26,

Well, I ended up updating the BIOS even though
SuSE 9.3 Pro and FC3 were properly turning off
and powering off the system but Mandrake PowerPack 10.1.

This didn't help either. I could be wrong, but I think
this is just Mandrake PowerPack thing.

If anyone's familiar on powering off completely
when turning off system on Mandrake PowerPack 10.1,
I'll appreciate their sharing info with me.

Thanks.

you have to make sure that apm is on

type lsmod to see if its loaded or not

if its not then type modprobe apm then try now to shutdown

to make it permanent then in mandrake control center just choose it and choose 'on boot'

Hi heema,

Thanks for your insight.

Well, I just found out that the "apmd", "acpi" and
"acpid" modules weren't installed. And, I had "acpi=ht"
boot option all along.

But enabling the "ACPI" option at the Control Center>
Boot>Boot Parameters didn't bring up any issue of missing
the ACPI modules thus far. Strange.

Anyway, I installed the above modules and left the "acpi=ht"
boot option out. Now, the power off works normally.

However, the overall boot process and the responsive
time are comparably and terrbly much, much slower than
with the "acpi=ht" boot option present.

Also, I'm getting "shell session exited with status 1"
message whenever I tried to exit the console window from
the "su" mode after having executed "modprobe" command.

Why? I don't know.

Now, I guess I could just manually power off the system
and keep the "acpi=ht" boot option for normal system
performance. But, it would be nice if there's a way
to automatically power off the system when selecting
the turn off system option and have the usual system
performance as well.

Regards,