I want my PC to power down completely with "shutdown -h now", not manually. I've tried commenting out /sbin/modprobe apm in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules but this isn't for a laptop.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

TheDanLayer

Well in Slackware you'll need to do more manually. First:

APM will be de-appreciated in the future, the best solution , but also complex solution is ACPI.

You should have acpi enabled in your kernel and all APM stuff disabled. Then still, it doesn't have to work, since ACPI has a lot modifications once in a while. If things don't work, get the latest ACPI kernel patch from : http://acpi.sourceforge.net/download.html

NOTE: Be very carefull with this stuff, and first backup your kernel sources, which is located in: /usr/src/linux

Read everything well, and be sure to download the latest patch for your kernel version. If anything failes while patching the kernel, please the backup from /usr/src/linux back and try again ...

Good luck!

"shutdown -h 1" powers it down. Why doesn't "shutdown -h now" power it down?

Daveo thanks for your reply,

Daniel

Hmm maybe I didn't read the post well, but I assume that the option shutdown -h didn't completly powerdown, but you have to switch it of manually. Try also shutdown -h 0

I down know why you should use 1 instead of now