Bellies Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 (edited) Hey I know this has been asked a lot but I still can't find the answer I have Mandrake 10.0 using LILO boot loader, however when I click Turn computer off it stops at Power Off. ie. doesn't turn itself off. I read that selecting Linux instead of Linux SMP worked and it did once but when I made it the default selection in LILO it stopped working, I did have enable ACPI ticked. So now I am back to where I started without being able to auto shutdown on either Linux or Linux SMP. Thanks Edited February 8, 2005 by Bellies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 It's a power management problem like you said. What mobo are you using and have you tried to upgrade your bios? And try acpi=ht or acpi=off in /etc/lilo.conf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellies Posted January 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 I have an IBM motherboard that definitely supports Power management because I have a dual boot with windoze and that auto shuts down. There are no bios updates available. Lilo.conf already had acpi=ht so i have altered this to acpi=off hopefully will work. What is the deal with ACPI vs. APM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 APM is old and ACPI is new and improved :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellies Posted January 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 No, the change from ACPI=ht to ACPI=off didn't work at all, any other ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 Try removing the ACPI kernel parameter from /etc/lilo.conf. This actually enables full ACPI support. If you edit the file by hand, don't forget to run /sbin/lilo after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 After editing lilo.conf, did you run lilo -v? If you did not, then you really didn't change anything. Have you tried acpi=on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 The following worked for me. Boot into a standard kernel (no SMP, enterprise, 4Gb, etc), with kernel options acpi=off, noapic, nolapic. Turn off acpi service and start apm service. For this, become root and run from the command line # service acpi off # service apm off (or # service apm status to check if apm is on) # service apm on For me, shutdown worked at this stage. I also have thinkpad and thinkpadpm modules loaded, these came with MDK kernel. You may want to try these as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilco1973 Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 (edited) APM = Advanced Power Management ACPI = Advanced Configuration & Power Interface APM is the oldest, but your hardware must support it. hopes it helps a bit B) both support switching off the computer automatilc Edited January 30, 2005 by wilco1973 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellies Posted January 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Unfortunately none of the above has worked I have tried ACPI = On,HT & Off. I ran lilo -v to confirm the change but none work. Does anyone use LinuxSMP and ACPI successfully, I have resigned to having to turn the computer off myself. Thanks Anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMo6022 Posted February 1, 2005 Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 Bellies, Perhaps try setting ACPI = force in lilo. I remember having the same problem with LinuxSMP and I believe this was the fix. Maybe someone else can confirm this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilco1973 Posted February 1, 2005 Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 Unfortunately none of the above has worked I have tried ACPI = On,HT & Off. I ran lilo -v to confirm the change but none work.Does anyone use LinuxSMP and ACPI successfully, I have resigned to having to turn the computer off myself. Thanks Anyway <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I am a complete newbie, have installed Mandrake 10.1 and selected ACPI on in: Start ===> System ===> Configuration ===> Boat loader works fine :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted February 2, 2005 Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 (edited) I'm using an SMP kernel and acpi. Works fine for me. I know I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but I see in some of these posts ACPI=ON and similar. I don't know if you are reading that from a gui tool or if you are looking at it in lilo.conf, but Linux is case-sensitive. In lilo.conf it should be acpi=on or acpi=off or acpi=ht or whatever. I apologize if I am jumping to the wrong conclusion, but didn't want to overlook the obvious either. Have you tried other options in combination? noapic nolapic ? You also have to make sure the acpi and acpid packages are installed on your system. Edited February 2, 2005 by Steve Scrimpshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellies Posted February 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 That's good mate I'm glad your still interested. Unfortunately its not a case issue because I just checked and they are lowercase. Both acpi and acpid are installed, I have tried downloading the latest versions but they are already the ones installed. I haven't tried noapic or nolapic so I'll have a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellies Posted February 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 Solved! Thanks PMo6022, I edited lilo.conf to read acpi=force, then ran lilo -v. All works well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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