Re: Power button doesn't work
> "Derek Hans" <whans@total.net> writes:
> > Is it normal that my power button doesn't work?
> > After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a
> > message saying
> > "Power down."
> > However, when I hit the power button, the computer just beeps but
> > still stays on. The only thing I can then do is a VERY hard reset:
> > take out the batteries (it's a laptop, compaq contura 400c) and
unplug
> > it. Nothing else responds. This doesn't seem to be the normal way
to
> > shut off a computer. Just wondering if there is a different way...
> > For the moment, I'm just letting it running all the time, however
> > there doesn't seem to be a "power saving mode" activated
> > automatically, and so the screen stays on all day. Besides, it
gets
> > rather hot over time - I'm not quite sure if the fan is adequate
for
> > this. I'm not decided if it's worse for the computer to shut it
off
> > the "HARD" way or keeping it running all day & night.
> > Help would be apreciated.
>
> A couple of things...
>
> First, please don't start a new thread by replying to a message on
an
> old thread. To me it looked like your message was a part of the
thread
> entitled "wajig: a simple command line interface to Debian package
> mgmt". This is because a lot of email/news readers are threaded and
> arrange articles by their subject. If you start a new thread by
> replying to an existing article your article may be overlooked, or
> annoy people who started the original thread.
>
Thanks for telling me - didn't realize this.
I was just to lazy to recopy the e-mail adress, and so thought it was
enough to change the subject to change the thread. Won't happen again
:-)
...
Wow! I just discovered the "newsgroup" capabilities of my mail reader!
Now I understand what you mean. I was recieving the mails though my
regular account and sending them directly to a "Linux" folder. I guess
having the messages arranged as threads makes a BIG diefference...
thanks for the tip!
> Second, as someone else stated in a reply to you, you may need to
> recompile your kernel with APM support, and if that doesn't work I
> think there's an APM option to use real-mode to power off.
>
What is APM?
I still haven't properly set up the laptop - I am still in a somewhat
long installation process, so I haven't gotten a compiler yet. Guess
that'll be the next thing I'll install.
> Third, a lot of laptops don't use a real switch for power off.
Instead
> it's a soft switch. In general, if the machine doesn't shut itself
off
> you may need to hold the power button down for as much as 8 seconds
to
> actually get it to turn off. Even that may not work, but 9 times out
> of 10 it has worked for me.
>
> Good Luck!
> Gary
>
>
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