Getting your PC to Powerdown after shutdown -h Command

elboricua

I searched and searched this forum for answers but it seems like a lot of people gave up on getting this working. I have a really bad tendency to not sleep when I have a computer issue so I had to get this working :-)

I must have recompiled my kernel 20 times before I figured this out. :oops:

But I did

My machine shuts down and powers off now :-)

I have an ASUS board. ACPI compliant. So what I did was

I compiled the kernel with ACPI support. I enabled the whole ACPI tree and compiled it directly into the kernel.

I emerge acpid and made sure that it was in the default runlevel.

bonkalot · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 9

Thanks dude, i have been wondering why my machine doesn't turn off propper.

:oops:

DArtagnan · Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2002 9:09 am Post subject:

elboricua · Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2002 11:19 am Post subject:

Pacman, what kind of ASUS board do you have?

I have Gentoo installed on 3 pc's with ASUS boards and the ACPI kernel support and acpid did the trick for all of them.

I use the following mobo's

ASUS K7V
ASUS A7V133
ASUS CUSL2-C
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DArtagnan · Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2002 11:20 am Post subject:

Oh my man

Its an old one Asus P2B, 300 Mhz and still runs like a f... bitch :-)

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elboricua · Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2002 1:12 pm Post subject:

Yup that board supports ACPI. You may need to upgrade to the newest BIOS for it though.

DArtagnan · Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 6:01 am Post subject:

Thanks man...I saw there a lot of P2B-<some letter here> and i did not know what to choose so I selected P2B only..there are 2 updates:
P2B BIOS 1012 (with H/W Monitoring)
P2B BIOS 1012 (no H/W Monitoring)

Whats H/W Monitoring?
Then, its possible to update the motherboard from Linux? I did it only from windows ...long time ago...
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Jacaranda · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 17

Hey,

H/W Monitoring is Hardware Monitoring, it enables you through something like lm_sensors to see things like how hot your CPU is, how fast your fans are spinning, what voltages are where etc etc. Usefull.

AFAIK You can't update mobo BIOS from windows or linux. You would have used a dos boot disk.

See http://www.bootdisk.com for a nice range of bootdisks.
I recommend this disk for flashing:
http://www.hellasystems.de/ftp/Utilities/BootDisk/DrDos70/drdflash.exe

DR DOS, always was the nicest of the dos's IMO.
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DArtagnan · Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 5:52 am Post subject:

I'm afraid to do this :-)

My comp. is since 98` P2 300Mhz, board Asus and is still working...maybe when it will work lower
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nsadhal · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 34 Location: Berkeley, CA

compiling the kernel w/ acpi support causes my keyboard to stop working.

i think this problem has been mentioned before on this board... haha... and the solution is to compile the kernel w/o acpi support
my board is an Abit KR7A (non raid, non ata133) with an Athlon XP 1800+ and 512 MB DDR.
I'm pretty sure I have the most updated bios, as I had to flash it before it would even store any settings and boot more than once.
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Disquiet · Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 7:17 pm Post subject:

All I've ever had to do to get my pc to powerdown on shutdown is to
compile in the Advanced Power Management BIOS support. No ACPI at all.

ACPI is apparently dangerous as well.

keifir · Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 12:57 pm Post subject:

same here - no need for ACPI. Only had to compile APM support.
My mobo: Soyo-6VCA with P2-350@300mhz

albrow · Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 9:26 pm Post subject:

I've stuck with APM too. I can't say I've had much luck with the whole power-down thing either. There's real-mode calls under APM but nothing I do seems to work.

Mind you, I do hate my motherboard. Bloody Super Socket 7 Gigabyte crap.

Alex Brown

jthj · Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 9:30 pm Post subject:

apm worked here too asus a7v

BonezTheGoon · Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 9:52 pm Post subject:

APM didn't work for me, but once I compile ACPI (and only ACPI) into my kernel it just worked, nothing more needed.

Regards,
BonezTheGoon

jthj · Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 10:17 pm Post subject:

BonezTheGoon · Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 10:35 pm Post subject:

Oh, Duh sorry I thought I had put that in--Must have glazed over that part.

That was on an ECS K7S5A. I don't recall what BIOS version.

Regards,
BonezTheGoon

mathieu · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2002 Posts: 17

I've also problems with shutdown/halt.

It used to work with apm. But after a while it didn't work anymore, can't remeber what changed perhaps bios update or newer kernel.
(XP shutdown works)

I tried ACPI but this one gives kernel panic at boot (scan pci devices).

Some info:
mb: asus a7v266-e
kernel: gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r7

Any suggestions?

mathieu

rojaro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 732

well ... one of my machines features an ASUS P2B-DS board equiped with two P2/350 cpu's and i had slackware running on it before gentoo, and i didn't have anything of the ACPI stuff enabled and "shutdown -h now" with plain APM support worked fine. so i assume this is an kernel issue as i used the same kernel configuration on the slackware installation (i actually just copied the .config file as i am too lazy to do the same configuration again and again and again).

but as i don't like the idea of wasting memory for a daemon which doesn't do anything for me but to turn off the machine on a shutdown (i mean, this is a server ... no battery status and stuff), i just deleted it's initscript and start it now instead from /etc/conf.d/local.stop. this way it get's started just after i issued the "shutdown -h now" command and doesnt eat any memory as long i need it for more important stuff.

note to Megatron2121: ... the command "halt" does exactly the same, so there is no need for an alias
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elboricua · Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2002 3:36 am Post subject:

Blaze · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 24

I just edited my inittab so ctrl-alt-del does shutdown -h

Then if I really need to reboot it, I wait for the power down prompt then hit ctrl-alt-del again and it reboots.

debian · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 22

insomniac · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 6:48 am Post subject:

I have an Asus A7v-133, and shutdown works fine. Kernel is compiled with APM, no ACPI. Make sure "Use real mode to power off" is disabled in the kernel!
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arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

I have an ECS P4S5A and APM would only put it into standby (with the fans still going). A shutdown -h now would make it reboot

I just compiled in ACPI and shutdown -h now works as promised. Now, I'd love to know how to put the system into suspend with ACPI *sigh*.

dufnutz · Apprentice Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 209