PC doesn't turn off after power down on mdk 10

[emilioestevezz]

Hi, i have a box runing Mandrake 10, i almost got all functioning but powering off my pc after computer shut down function on KDE, i guess ACPI and APM packages handle this, but i don know how to exactly enable this modules on kernel. Can anybody help me with this??

 

Thaks in advance.

Emilio

[idud]

Maybe you should post your hardware configuration here so we can figure out what happened. Because Mdk-10-OE shut my computer down perfectly.

 

But anyway, you said the "shutdown function" on KDE didn't work. Try to execute this:

shutdown -p -h now

or

poweroff

 

Of course you'll need root privileges to do that.

[bvc]

change

acpi=ht

to

acpi=on

in the bootloader config.

[emilioestevezz]

bvc, it worked. you too idud, thanks guys!

[idud]

I'm glad too :-)

[Guest vincentb]

I'm glad too :-)

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

 

All,

 

I am very newbie in Linux. Could you tell me exactli where I have to change this parameter?

 

acpi=ht

to

acpi=on

in the bootloader config.

 

Which files?

 

I have a similar problem ... and would also like to be glad too ;)

 

Thanks in advance,

Vincent

[Jet2k5]

ok first open up console and type in the following

 

kwrite /etc/lilo.conf

 

This will open up the lilo.conf file, now read every line until you come accross one that should look like this

 

append="devfs=mount acpi=on splash=silent"

 

Thats where it is like bvc said change the acpi=ht to acpi=on and then hit the save button and your all done! hope this helps,

 

-Luis

[SwiftDeath]

They may have gnome or kde so the safest bet is doing what Luis101 said but using Vim.

 

Open up any terminal you want.

Su to root.

vim /etc/lilo.conf

Press i to to insert stuff

make necessary changes (what luis101 said sounds ok)

Press ESQ then :WQ (write, quit)

and then type cat /etc/lilo.conf to view and see if you changed it right

then type "lilo -v" and see if it gets errors.

then type exit twice.

 

Congrats, hopefully everything will work now

[Guest vincentb]

thanks a lot for your help ...

 

it is working !!

[Guest drietow]

OK I tried just as you said but my system is still not powering off. CORRECTION, I should say my MDK 10 powers off only about 1 in 5 times. Any other suggestions?

[coverup]

Including the nolapic noapic options in the lilo/conf and switching from the enterprise kernel to the standard kernel fixed the problem for me.

[idud]

Be careful if you using the secure-kernel, it can't poweroff my computer too.

[Guest sordros]

Hey guys,

I'm yet another newbie with the same problem, but I have another difficulty: when I enter to edit the lilo.conf file, I can't find that line that says:

 

 append="failsafe acpi=ht devfs=nomount"

 

Is there something I need to install first ? Is it OK if I just add this line?

 

Thanks in advance for your help

Edited October 29, 2004 by sordros

[chris z]

you just want to look at the line under your main linux boot option that starts with append=. it won't say failsafe in there. fail safe is a boot option unto itself. here's my lilo entry for my main linux boot option. note the append= line.

 

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
default="mandrake10.0"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=1200
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="mandrake10.0"
root=/dev/hda7
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount acpi=off resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only

 

Chris

[Guest sordros]

ok, here is the line I have:

 

append="devfs=mount resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent"

 

I'm wondering why it doesn't come up with an option "acpi=".

Is it OK if I just add it?

 

I actually tried it this morning but got a fatal error after I edited and ran the command

 

lilo -v

 

sorry I didn't write down the error (I'm actually at work now, not my computer)