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Hey

 

I know this has been asked a lot but I still can't find the answer :wall:

 

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

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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?

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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.

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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

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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

 

I am a complete newbie, have installed Mandrake 10.1 and selected ACPI on in:

 

Start ===> System ===> Configuration ===> Boat loader

 

works fine :D

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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.

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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.

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