On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 01:25, yavorsky gaetan wrote: > Hello all, > I have the same problem with RH9 & FC1. > I am running a P4 with Asus P4P800. > Due to hyper threading, 2 CPUs are detected, and the SMP kernel is used. > Looking at the messages during boot time ( or with dmesg command ), > I can see that APM is not safe in SMP mode and, by this fact, is disabled. > Seems to be a good reason not to power off. > > Bye > Gaetan. > > Wolfgang a écrit : > > >On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 00:37, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > > > >>On Tuesday 16 December 2003 02:14, Wolfgang Gill wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Make sure APM is running. ACPI doesn't seem to be fully functional from what > >>>I've read. > >>> > >>> > >>Seems OK to me. > >> > >> > >> > >>>If you a running KDE like I am, then you can check to see if it's enabled > >>>by going into System Settings-->Server Settings-->Services. Make sure APM > >>>is ticked and save the settings. > >>> > >>> > >>I don't have any Server Settings menu item under System Settings. > >>Do most people? > >> > >> > > > >That's if you have '/usr/bin/redhat-config-services' installed. In all > >my installs I do. > > > >If so, that's another way to enable/disable services. > > > >Wolf For systems with DUAL CPU's running the SMP kernel, you can add 'apm=power_off' to the end of the kernel command line in grub. I did that and my SMP system powers off completely when I issue the 'poweroff' command. Wolf
