Re: system will not soft power down

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Wayne" == Wayne Brown <waynebrown01@yahoo.com> writes:

    Wayne> I've been running woody for around a year. Before upgrading
    Wayne> my motherboard / processor (solteck 75drv5 I think, athlon
    Wayne> xp2000) it used to soft power off no problem. Once I had
    Wayne> rebuilt the pc using the existing hard disk, now I just get
    Wayne> a 'power down' message and I have to hold in the power
    Wayne> button for 5 secs before it shuts off the power.

Some newer motherboards do not have apm support, or disable it in the
BIOS in favor of ACPI. The Debian kernel I am using (2.4.18-k7) does
not provide ACPI support and includes apm as a module. So that might
be an explanation. 

If so, you might need to recompile a kernel (just copy the
/boot/config-x.y.z-arch file as the kernel configuration and turn on
ACPI and turn off APM support and rebuild).

Or perhaps you can choose this in your BIOS?

Cheers!
Shyamal