Guest nik_123 Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 Hallo all here! I got the following problem : I have an old laptop - Intel Pentium 2 celeron- 360 mhz, 128 MB RAM, Video Voodoo3fx - 4 MB video memory. On that system I use Mandriva 2007, kernel 2.6.17-17, GNOME 2.16. Everything seems to be OK, but after selecting "Shutdown" from GNOME menu or just typing "halt" as root in the terminal, system starts to halting, but after the message " System halted" laptop just freezes, doesn't turn off actually- I have to push the Power button to shut off the power really. On the same laptop, I have used Mandriva 2009.0 and I haven't got that problem- but mandi 2009 is too heavy, 2007 works quite faster on that machine and I would like to use 2007.0. The same problem I have with 2007.1 too. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 If it's any consolation I have the exact same problem on an old Toshiba. It won't even reboot ever since 10.6, or something like that. I never got to the root cause and have got used to pushing the button. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 Are the acpi packages installed? I had problems with machines not shutting down because of missing acpi. Or maybe older machines require apm packages instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nik_123 Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 (edited) [root@localhost ~]# urpmi acpi The package(s) are already installed [root@localhost ~]# acpi is installed. What is apm, and how to try it? By the way, Mandriva 2009 also contains acpi, but with it the laptop halts normally. Edited December 1, 2009 by nik_123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nik_123 Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 apmd is also on and starts during boot. Any ideas? Why the laptop halts normally with Mandriva 2009, but freezes during "halt" with 2007.0 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 I had similar happen on an old machine of mine when I had Mandriva 2007 and found in the end my BIOS was not in a good state. I re-flashed it and it started working again after that. Incidently, when I upgraded the BIOS it was working fine, but then I lost sound, so I downgraded back to the version I had, and then it still powered off OK and sound was working again. It might not be the same issue, but I also found that if I installed other distros, it was working fine, just Mandy was a problem. I did have a bug open for it ages ago, but then I solved it when flashing the BIOS. What you can try to do to see if you do have similar problem to me, is open a console window, su to root privileges, and then type: poweroff and see if it shuts down correctly? halt wouldn't work for me, but poweroff would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 I had that problem with a P2- 333 mhz, using an older 2.6.xx kernel. I added pci=noacpi acpi=off as boot parameters, and it worked for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 Ah, greg2 you reminded me of this. I was using this at one point too albeit without the pci=noacpi, only the additional extra I had on that line was: acpi=off apm=poweroff so that acpi was disabled, and apm would power the machine off. It didn't always work for me though, but I found that the problem was due to the halt command, because poweroff would work for me everytime. Sadly, it meant I'd have to keep opening a console window as root to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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