Re: power down
--- Jason Majors <jason@kwiqsilver.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:31:29PM -0800, Alan Su
> scribbled...
> > as long as you have the kernel option to "power
> off on shutdown"
> > selected, it should do the right thing. if the
> screen is black, it
> > sounds like it has. is the fan still spinning?
> is the disk still
> > spinning? are you sure the green light isn't
> normal (if you have
> > mains power plugged in, perhaps)?
>
> The green LED is the power indicator, the AC
> indicator is different. As far
> as I can tell things are spinning down, but it seems
> more like an extreme
> sleep mode to me. If I hold the power button for six
> seconds, it turns off
> (which is how it's supposed to turn off). But I know
> it can be software
> controlled, because windoze does it.
>
> Incidentally...where is the "power off on shutdown"
> option? On my desktop
> boxes I just enable APM Bios Support, and it powers
> down, on the notebook I
> have far more than that enabled.
On my Pavilion n5450 in order for me to get it to
shutdown with shutdown -h now I had added to lilo.conf
append="apm=on" and I also added to /etc/modules 'apm'
. That shuts down my system completely.
Don
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