On Sunday, 14 October 2007 15:26, dev wrote: > Hey, > I have a P4 2.8 GHz 915 , ASUS Mobo , Slackware linux 12 running > kernel 2.6.23 right now , but have used most of the major (2.6.*) > releases since 2.6.17 > > My computer on shutdown now -h never shut down. A "power down" is > printed on the screen and the monitor goes black, but the comp never > actually shutdown. I always had to kill power manually. I tried with > the generic kernel supplied with slackware (everything is a module) as > well as the huge kernel (everything is compiled in) as well as my own > kernel builds since 2.6.18. Nothing made by comp actually halt on its > own. I assumed it was a faulty ACPI on my computer, and didn't think > much of it. > > I installed the latest 2.6.23 kernel. After installing , the shutdown > now -h command still doesn't work. But I tested out the > hibernate/suspend to disk via: > > echo shutdown >> /sys/power/disk > echo disk >> /sys/power/state > > In this case, the system halts down. > > I want to know : if the hibernate / suspend to disk can halt my > computer why can't shutdown now -h. Any reasons for this / fix ? What happens if you do "echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk" before hibernation? Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html