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I've used Mepis for a while, but just installed Slack 10.2 and I'm having a problem turning my computer off. How do I do it?
When I end session from the KDE desktop, I get a command line and I don't know the command to shut the computer down. I type "shutdown" and get what looks like a menu, but I'm either typing the commands wrong, or something because nothing will work.
shutdown should do the job, or poweroff. these commands are generally links to the "halt" comand which is what does the actual work. I've never seen shutdown provide anythign remotely like a menu.. it just stops everything and pulls the power....
you'll have to use an acpi kernel or load the apm module.
as root issue " modprobe apm " and then " halt " .
if all shuts down ok, edit " /etc/rc.d/rc.modprobe "
and uncomment the line " modprobe apm " so it's allways loaded at boot.
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