halt does not shut down the computer

abuda · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 29 Location: Crete, Greece

Hi all, I experience the following situation. I logout from KDE (KDE 3.2.0) and I am on the terminal. I do a halt and the the usual shutdown process is carried out. When all is done, a 'Power is down' message is printed but the the computer is still on. After the above message, the console is still active. Is there some extra thing I need to configure?

Thanks,

Paul.

hensan · l33t Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 868 Location: Sweden

Try adding support for power management in the kernel. That fixed it for me.

abuda · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 29 Location: Crete, Greece

My kernel (vanilla 2.4.24 sources) has already been compiled with power management support. However neight ACPI nor APM has been enabled. Do you think I need to enable either one of the 2?

dreamer · Apprentice Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 236

try enabling APM and DISABLING "automatic call to poweroff" ( or whatever it's called )

hensan · l33t Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 868 Location: Sweden

Just select Power Management support and Advanced Power Management BIOS support, that should do it, you don't have to select any of the options under it.

t_2199 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 146

And don?t forget to enable it with your BIOS

Plastic · l33t Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 649

I don't know how stable ACPI is in 2.4 but if you have it, I would suggest enabling it INSTEAD of APM.

teknomage1 · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 4:37 pm Post subject:

I had a problem with this too and it turned out to be a BIOS setting that changed the way format the BIOS expected for the power off code. Once I switched that out powering down started working, so if you're sure you've got the kernel set up properly make sure to double check your BIOS settings.

abuda · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 29 Location: Crete, Greece

I recompiled the kernel with Advanced Power Management BIOS support as hensan suggested (without selecting any other options under it) and it worked like a charm

Thanks everyone for replying. I really appreciate your help and input. Gentoo community rocks!!!