Re: APM Shutting down problems

Paul (PELaufer@CSUPomona.edu)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 22:00:30 +0000

Tygrys wrote:
>
> Welcome <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>!
>
> Why doesn't my system want to shutdown after `shutdown -h'? That means,
> it is able to halt the machine, but not to power it off. It worked fine
> with 2.0.xx kernels - I encounterd these problems with 2.1.113, 114 and
> 115. I've read the note on this kernel function, it says, that there may
> be some problems in a few bioses, but we don't want functionality loss
> in 2.2, do we?
>
> My system: M6TFX FX-based motherboard, Pentium II 300, RH5.1.

Tygrys,
The halt syscall in 2.0 also does APM poweroff. In 2.1, poweroff is a separate
syscall, and you need sysvinit 2.72 or above for it to work. The way to activate
it is to add "-p" to the last call to halt in your shutdown script (usually
/etc/rc.d/rc.0). Hope that helped.

~Paul Laufer

-- 
I like to think of NT as the Starship Enterprise,
And Linux as the Millenium Falcon.
The Enterprise needs a huge room and a crew of 50 to get to warp,
Where the Falcon just needs R2D2 and a Wookie. . .


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