how to shutdown the system

opentaka · l33t Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 840 Location: Japan

this is my long thought sinse i started using gentoo.
I dont shutdown my box verymuch but when you shutdown -h now,
iu get like "system halted" "acpi down" then i need to press my power botton for several secs to actually shut the system.

how do I let gentoo shut my whole system down?
this must be common issue and must be answered somewhere in the forum but I just cant find the right keyword for this

thanks.

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Epyon · l33t Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 754 Location: NJ, USA

"poweroff" or "shutdown -P now"

Ma3oxuct · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 523

I use halt to shutdown automatically.

opentaka · l33t Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 840 Location: Japan

thx, but none of them worked.
shutdown -P now - gave me invalid option
poweroff - game me exact result same as shutdown -h now (and not shuting down the whole system)
halt - same as above

I'm using desktop with MSI motherboard, I guess I need to tweak somewhere?
(smallinfo: powering off whole system should work cause that BILL OS I had b4 were working, knoppix too )
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Flammie · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 9:39 am Post subject:

Something in the kernel's ACPI or APM section is missing? Of course it also might be that the driver for power management for your mobo in linux kernel is buggy.

dejima · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject:

Probably it is what Flammie says that you didn't compile your kernel with APM or ACPI support.

Compile them and then you should emerge one of apmd or acpid.

Check also http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Powerdown_on_shutdown_-h

dwblas · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 8:27 pm Post subject:

Compiling the kernel using genkernel __usually__ helps this. If so, you can look at .config and see what's different.