Lee Revell wrote: >On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:46 +1100, Shayne O'Connor wrote: > > >>vector wrote: >> >> >> >>>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? >>> >>> >>> >>not positive, but my son sometimes gets this .... have you got apic >>enabled in the bios? >> >> >> > >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 > > > 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.) -- ________________________________ Hear us online: www.Sonaural.com Brad Fuller (408) 799-6124 ** Sonaural Audio Studios ** (408) 799-6123 West San Jose (408) 799-6124 Cambrian
