Re: Getting power off to work in Etch...

[Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr>]

On Tuesday 30 October 2007 18:58, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> Does anyone know the secret to getting Etch to power down the system
> after a halt. I have tried 'apt-get install apmd', but it doesn't
> seem to have helped.
>
> I know the hardware can do it, because it worked with the very old
> version of Ubuntu I tried before Debian (5.04).
>
> The machine is a Dell Precision 410 with new Etch netinst just done...
>
> Thanks,
> DigbyT

Hi Digby. There's a multitude of possible fixes for this one. I've had no 
problems with my Debian, Sarge, Etch, and Lenny installs, all on the same 
machine, but a Fedora version had shutdown problems on this machine, and 
appending the kernel line with acpi=force in /boot/grub/grub.conf fixed it.

I did see another possible fix in the Debian archives, but will have to look 
for that.

Nigel.