Needs to push power button to power off?

danpin · 10-21-2003, 05:05 AM

I'm using a compaq presario notebook, i have sucessfully install mandrake 9.1 together with Win xp. In windows, i don't need to push the power button to turn the computer off. but in Linux after loggin out I would end up with the message "Power Down". can i do something so that i down need to manually push the power button to turn it off? Thanks for your help.

Thewyzewun · 10-21-2003, 07:26 AM

This is because your computer has a APM (Advanced Power Management chip) on its motherboard. Linux can work with these quite easily, but since mine was setup by default and I'm at college (on a windows machine) at the moment I can't find the option. Try looking for power management somewhere in the system setup (mandrake control panel?)

jdruin · 10-21-2003, 08:13 AM

If you are a command line user, try:

shutdown -h now

just for grins. It works on my box but I am using a Redhat PC so it may not help.

aaa · 10-21-2003, 10:52 AM

If your notebook uses acpi instead of apm, you'll have to enable acpi. Mandrake usually disables it because apm works better with Linux.

jdruin · 10-21-2003, 08:57 PM

Um...Whats acpi and apm? I am not having a problem but would like to learn from this one.

aaa · 10-21-2003, 09:08 PM

They're different systems for power management. The acpi support in Linux isn't quite complete, so Mandrake tries to use apm, in the hopes of your system supporting it.