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From: Christian Schoenebeck <christian.schoenebeck@epost.de>
To: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
Subject: Re: power off (again)
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:06:11 +0200
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>>> please cc me, I'm offlist <<<

Am Freitag, 19. April 2002 17:52 schrieb Rob Landley:
> On Friday 19 April 2002 08:58 am, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 18. April 2002 23:02 schrieb Trever L. Adams:
> > > Just out of curiosity, have you changed your power off scripts to
> > > reflect: "halt -p".
> >
> > Yes, this is not the problem
>
> Just thought I'd give a "me too" response.  The Red Hat 7.2 kernel powers
> down all three systems I've tried it on (a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, a
> Toshiba Tecra 8000, and an SIS chipset motherboard).  The 2.4.18 and 2.4.17
> kernels do NOT power down any of those systems (It will spins down the hard
> drive instead, but the system power stays on.  Yes, I'm compiling in the
> right APM support.  I've tried it both with and without the "use APM bios
> to power down" switch.)
>

And I already thought I was the only one having that problem.

Meanwhile Wolfgang Loeffler told me the possibility that power off also won't 
work if you enabled SMP on a uniprocessor machine. It wasn't a solution for 
my machine as I haven't compiled the kernel with SMP support, but maybe it's 
one for yours.
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