[linux-audio-user] power down

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Lee Revell wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:46 +1100, Shayne O'Connor wrote:
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>>vector wrote:
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>>>Hi all
>>>I realise this is not the place to ask such a question but rather than
>>>subscribing to yet another forum I ask first just in case.
>>>I have demudi working now, all except it turning the machine off. It
>>>goes to shut down the last line on the screen is Power Down but then
>>>it just sits there. I have to physically turn it off.
>>>any ideas?
>>>
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>>>
>>not positive, but my son sometimes gets this .... have you got apic
>>enabled in the bios?
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>Do you mean "ACPI" maybe?
>
>This usually means you don't have power management enabled.  It's not
>Linux specific.  For example if you follow the recommendation on many
>Windows audio web sites and install with the "Standard PC" HAL instead
>of the "ACPI Uniprocessor PC" then you get the same behavior (PC will
>not power itself down, you have to turn it off).
>
>Enabling either APM or ACPI should do it.  But, keep in mind that
>enabling power management has caused latency problems in the past.  It's
>possible that these issues are solved with a recent kernel.
>
>Lee
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I have the same problem on a Dell 6C server, and it doesn't have ACPI 
setting in the bios.
If I "shutdown -h now" it goes thru the shutdown procedure and ends in 
the exact same place " Power Down".

I wish I could figure it out, but no luck so far (I tried to put acpi=on 
on the kernel boot line in Grub, but no luck.)

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