redhat 9 on my compaq wont poweroff

TheCarl · 05-27-2003, 11:44 AM

I have RedHat 9.0 on my Compaq Presiario 1200-XL103 laptop
when i poweroff my computer it wont poweroff. i dont know what it does, but it looks sounds like its rebooting but it aint rebooting either...

anyone know what might be wrong...

perhaps i just need to reconfigure the kernel?

Mega Man X · 05-27-2003, 01:05 PM

How are you turning it off? In the On/Off key, into console or at your X manager?

Try running this as root at the konsole:

shutdown -h now

if that does not work, try to halt the system with the halt command at the konsole

Pcghost · 05-27-2003, 03:07 PM

Does your laptop use ACPI or APM? My HP uses ACPI and I had to recompile support for ACPI into the kernel, which fixed my shutdown problems as well as gave me a nifty battery status indicator on the panel.

TheCarl · 05-28-2003, 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Pcghost
Does your laptop use ACPI or APM? My HP uses ACPI and I had to recompile support for ACPI into the kernel, which fixed my shutdown problems as well as gave me a nifty battery status indicator on the panel.

im not really sure, ill try to add acpi support into the kernel and hope

TheCarl · 05-28-2003, 12:19 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Megaman X
How are you turning it off? In the On/Off key, into console or at your X manager?

Try running this as root at the konsole:

shutdown -h now

if that does not work, try to halt the system with the halt command at the konsole

i have tried all that

MaxMaverick · 01-09-2004, 07:31 AM

Hello

I have the same handhelp and .. the same problem (distro is debian/sid)

Have some of you found a solution ?