Re: why sarge can't power off PC

["Mumia W." <mumia.w.18.spam+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 08/08/2006 02:21 AM, Mirco Piccin wrote:
> Hi Serena!
>
> > Every time I shutdown, I have to unplug power cord.
> > Other distro, such as mandrake can poweroff.
>
> Which Kernel are u using?
> It happens also to me, using kernel 2.4.x (in some machine, of course, not
> in all).
> After upgrading to kernel 2.6.x , this problem seems to be solved (for me,
> but you can verify that also using Virtual Machine).
> But i don't know why ... :-(
> Hope it helps you ...

You most definitely don't need a new kernel just to power off 
the PC. It might be as simple as (as root):

modprobe button
/etc/init.d/acpid restart

If this doesn't work, you might have to rebuild the kernel to 
enable ACPI. Read the kernel-building docs and the README file 
in the kernel source tree.

I'm using kernel 2.4.27 (custom built).