FC5 does not shut down

edwal · 06-08-2006, 03:00 PM

My PC has an Asus A8N-VM mobo with an Athlon 3500 64 bit cpu. I cannot get it to shut down properly in that I can select"shut down" in the dialogue box and the HDD, mouse and K/B shut off but the power supply and cpu fan are still going.The final message on the monitor is "System halted". I have to press the start button to shut down completely. Anybody got any ideas?? please.

slackie1000 · 06-09-2006, 04:14 AM

hi there,
are you using acpi or apm?

Code:

lsmod | grep -i acpi

regards,
slackie1000

edwal · 06-09-2006, 01:48 PM

I do not know but I get "ACPI Unable to load Description Tables" during the boot up sequence. Does this mean I am using apm? I tried entering the code you suggested and got "bash: lsmod: command not found".Presumably I need something else loading onto my system for this coding to work.If you have any more ideas I am more than happy to try them out but am away on family holiday for a week so will try anything out when I get back.
Thanks, edwal.

redarrow · 06-11-2006, 04:50 AM

Try running that command as:

Code:

/sbin/lsmod | grep -i acpi

slackie1000 · 06-11-2006, 10:52 AM

hi there,
it is possible that there is some conflict between apm and acpi.
what happens if you pass apm=off to the kernel?
regards,
slackie1000

edwal · 06-22-2006, 03:15 PM

Back from holiday and tried the possible solutions suggested but no improvement. I suspect it has something to do with the ACPI Unable to load Description Tables, so I guess I am going to spend some time "googling" for a possible answer. Thanks for your help and when I find an answer I will post it here.

noxious · 06-23-2006, 03:09 PM

As root in a terminal, do you get the same response with "shutdown -h now"?

edwal · 06-23-2006, 03:32 PM

Noxious, yes I am afraid it is just the same. Thanks for your suggestion.

manishsingh4u · 06-23-2006, 03:41 PM

Try this as root

Code:

/sbin/modprobe apm

You should not get any error messages if you have apm support. Then try doing a shutdown.

edwal · 06-24-2006, 02:25 PM

Tried /sbin/modprobe apm and got the reply FATAL: Module apm not found.So presumably I am not using apm and ACPI Unable to load Description Tables means I am not getting a functioning ACPI. Do I have to find a way of getting these Tables to load?

manishsingh4u · 06-24-2006, 02:50 PM

Here's a link of how to which I found. Check if it helps.See section 15
http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/acpi/acpi_howto.txt

edwal · 06-25-2006, 02:15 PM

Thanks Manishsingh4u I will have a proper look and read during the week and see if I can make any progress.