Shutdown problem....
 

Hi there,

I have a small problem.I am currently using shutdown -ah so bring the system down.And so it does, the only thing is that after:

the pc still keeps on working so i have push the power down to turn it off. How can i resolve this ?



PS i am running Slackware.

Thanks.

You need to make sure you have apm installed or enabled.

Thanks for your reply.


That's what i have :

I guess i have to compile a custom kernel ?!

if apm doesn't work, your computer probably uses ACPI, and if ACPI is compiled and it doesn't work, check your "dmesg" (command) to see if ACPI is running.

Yes you need to compile the power management support in the kernel. I don't exactly remember the option in make xconfig, but I'll try to find out.

Problem solved ! Just needed to uncomment one line in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules .


Thanks for the help guys :-) .

Please post which line you uncommented,
so that others searching will learn...

Yes, please :)

Post the line which should be uncommented to solve the power-down problem.
Got that problem in ubuntu distro.
Thanks in advance.
Regards.

It's probably this linewhich enables APM, but I can't answer for him.
That is the only way I've gotten it to work in Slack.
It doesn't work at all for me with ACPI -- only APM.

i got acpi working by appending this to the boot:

acpi=force

I got the same problem in Suse, but I'll surely try and solve it with this now. :)

What does apm stand for?

"man apm"