Shutdown

[dik]

Okay right, I'm sure this is a small easy one to answer, I havent really paid much attention to it, as I hardly ever turn off my gentoo box

My gentoo machine, used to run windows XP, I've since gotten rid of that ages ago, and run Gentoo as my primary O/S. Now, with windows XP, when i hit "shut down" the PC would turn itself off.

Now, with gentoo on it, when I do an

[grooveman]

You need to enable advanced power management under the "general setup" portion of your kernel configurer (make menuconfig or make xconfig). Compile it in (not as a module). Depending upon your hardware, you may need to include one of the options subbordinate to it too.

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[furkan]

or if you use acpi you can open it in kernel....or if you don't want to compile kernel use that code