Re: inspiron 7500 - shutdown pblm

[Matej Cepl <matej@ceplovi.cz>]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 07:05:14AM +0200, Michel Petit wrote:
> > i have an inspiron 7500 running a sarge with kernel 2.4.19
> > when i do a poweroff ... it's doing "init 0" and then i have
> > the last line : "Power Down." i have to press the button
> > power for shutting it down ...  normally the puter should
> > turn off itself ...  i tried many options for this shutdown
> > pblm to be solved ... but no way :/
> >
> > if someone is using a 2.4.19 on an inspiron 7500 could u
> > send me the kernel config file plz ?
> 
> Did you load the power management module ? It will solve your
> pb.

Actually, I have very similar problem. I have Compaq Presario
1200 my own kernel-image (2.4.18 from kernel-source package of
woody), I have switched on APM in config (see attached), apmd is
started on startup, APM is switched on in BIOS, and I can run
'apm -s' for suspension of the notebook (Fn+F4 works too for
suspension). However:

- Exactly the same thing happens to me as Michel Petit described:
  when I switch off (through Shutdown in KDM or halt on command
  line), the system goes to runlevel 1, gets to the ``Power
  Down.'' Then really everything switches off (hard disk is for
  a second silent), but after that second hard disk begins to
  turn again. The same goes with switching off hard disk by
  noflushd. It really goes down, but immediately it switches on
  again.

- It was even worse, when I tried that button which switches to
  the hibernation in Windows. And yes, Phoenix BIOS (PHDISK) went
  on and everything seems to be hibernated. After couple of
  minutes I have switched the computer to be dehibernated and lo
  and behold! it really went. Unfortunately, root was suddnely
  mounted ro and there were couple of thousand crosslinks on it,
  so that I had to reinstall whole system and I have still some
  169MB in /lost+found/ directory (9671 files according to 'ls -R
  | wc -l'). Fortunately, it seems to me that so far I have not
  lost any data, so that's OK, but do not expect me to try it
  second time, unless I will be pretty sure, that it works.

Could anybody explain me, what's going on in my computer?

	Thanks

		Matej Cepl

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