Re: Power down

[Vincent Smeets <V.Smeets@T-Online.de>]

Hallo,

I have an old (1999) computer too. dmesg showed that the kernel does 
find my ACPI but doesn't use it because my bios is too old. It says 
something like "... bios too old (1999 < 2001)". I now use the kernel 
parameter "acpi=force" and now the kernel is using my ACPI. Poweroff 
does now realy switch the power off!

Regards,
Vincent

Elmer E. Dow wrote:

> Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>
> > Noah Dain wrote:
> >
> > > > My computer says "power down" when I shut it down. I just upgraded 
> > > > from
> > > > kernel 2.4 to 2.6 in Debian Sarge, and of course I want it to shutdown
> > > > automatically. What should I do to fix this?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I had a bunch of crappy dells (is there any other kind?) that did this.
> > >
> > > I disabled acpi support via the kernel param: acpi=off
> > > I then added "apm" to /etc/modules so apm is loaded on every boot, and
> > > installed/started apmd (although apmd may not be necessary).
> > >
> > > be sure to add "acpi=off" to /boot/grub/menu.lst like:
> > >
> > > ## ## Start Default Options ##
> > > ## A FEW LINES OF COMMENTS IN HERE ...
> > > # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro acpi=off
> > >
> > > then run (as root): update-grub
> > > then, reboot.
> > >
> > > I'm sure there's a way to get acpi to work, but apm has always "just
> > > worked" for me.
> >
> >
> >
> > On my Thinkpad R51 upgrading to a newer kernel (I now run a custom 
> > 2.6.12) did the trick (now I can use acpi).
> >
> > Johannes
> I have an old Dell 333 desktop with Sarge and 2.6 kernel. I tried the 
> above instructions with no success. Any further ideas?
>
> Elmer