On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 17:18 -0500, Dave Phillips wrote: > garry.ogle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Dave Phillips wrote: > > > > > 1) The machine does not cleanly shut down with the rt kernel. The > > system appears to go down, but the power light remains on and does not > > turn off manually (this happens with the battery in or out). Any fix for > > that ? I don't like having to switch off the power at the strip, I doubt > > that it's good for the box. > > > > i can't help with your other questions but this could a consequence of > > having the "acpi=off" and/or "noapic" set in your kernel bootloader > > config. > > > > i don't remember which one disables the auto-power-off, but this is > > definitely the observed behaviour on my box. i have to physically switch > > it off after it shuts down. > > > > i set these boot options because they help with the way IRQs are > > allocated, which in turn allows better real-time performance. > > > Hmm, so does that mean I have to live with the behavior ? It could also be that there was a kernel oops or bug while the machine was running that left it in a state where the kernel can't finish its own shutdown, I've seen it happen. -- Fernando > Btw, I upgraded the GNOME Control Center, it no longer replaces my > Fluxbox background. :) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
