On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 18:09 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote: > 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.) > And you are sure ACPI is enabled in the kernel config? Lee
