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I downloaded mdk 10 community (3cd's) and had problems with shutdown also!

same thing as you , also the eth0 failed etc etc...

and it all feeds through a d-link router out to the internet

eth0 fails and yet it still works and gets out to the internet fine !!!

 

and yet everything works perfectly under mdk 9.2 !!!

 

maybe mdk10 was released a little too soon?

 

i think i'll wait for 10.2 to be released and hope its all sorted by then.

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I downloaded mdk 10 community (3cd's) and had problems with shutdown also!

same thing as you , also the eth0 failed etc etc...

and it all feeds through a d-link router out to the internet

eth0 fails and yet it still works and gets out to the internet fine !!!

 

and yet everything works perfectly under mdk 9.2 !!!

 

maybe mdk10 was released a little too soon?

 

i think i'll wait for 10.2 to be released and hope its all sorted by then.

Mandrake 10 community is released too soon for my taste. Many people have already ranted on 10 CE so I won't add any more. But if you can update 10 CE to the latest updates, it should be running fine.

 

If you don't have the time or the means to update, I suggest running 10 Official Edition instead. I have installed it on my laptop, my desktop, and my office computer. Other than the bug that yenta_socket module is not loaded on startup after the first reboot (thus preventing the use of any pcmcia cards), it is stable as a rock.

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Ok when I log out... it does it the non-graphical way so I say everyone.

 

The last four lines I see are<snip></snip>

 

Then it just sits their forever.

 

Hi there,

 

once you see the power down message, your machine is actually off, software wise. You pretty much just need to hit the switch. To get your machine to power down automatically, enabling ACPI in lilo/grub should allow an auto power off.

 

 

regards,

 

armond

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Heya,

 

(hope this isn't a little too late ...)

if you probably use apm to shutdown it will will work. I don't exactly know how to do it with the gui-tools. I don't use Mandrake at the moment. Apm doesn't also have all the features of acpi I believe. I can be the steps I describe here will only work for computers with one processor.

 

Anyway to use apm, you'll have to change the file /etc/lilo.conf. However this is quite dangerous since, if you mess it up, you're computer won't boot into Mandrake anymore. However, you can put in the first Madrake-disc I think. type rescue en there you'll get a menu to execute lilo. It will repair it automatically normally.

 

What I suggest to not mess it up, is to add an extra entry to you /etc/lilo.conf-file. (I think Mandrake uses lilo) I also think there is an entry in the Mandrake Control center to edit this file. Instead of the following things I mention, you can first try to edit it through the control center.

 

So, open the file. You'll see one or more entries with

 

image = ...

label= ....

 

Copy the entry where label=x where x is the entry you normally choose on startup

 

So, you get:

 

image = ...

label= ....

....

append="..."

....

 

No let's edit the new entry.

1) Give it another label

2) add to append apm=power-off, so you'll get append= " ... apm=power-off"

3) save the contents of /etc/lilo.conf and go out of the file

4) on the command-line type: lilo

and press enter

5) normally you should see something like: adding entry ...

 

I don't know if the Mandrakecontrolcenter-gui for editing lilo can deal with editing lilo.conf manually.

 

Anyway, you can make youy new entry the default entry to boot. If you're editing lilo.conf manually, there is an entry

 

default= ....

 

above the different entries. You can specify label=entry5 where entry5 is the label of the entry you want to boot automatically.

 

Reboot, boot back into linux with the new entry and try to shutdown. Normally it should power-off automatically.

 

Hopes this helps,

 

Michel

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