Gerrit wrote: > Alberto Molteni wrote: > > When I try to halt the machine I see all the apps > > shutting down OK (except the mouse services, but I've > > read that's quite normal) and then... nothing happens! > > It gets as far as to: > > > > Flushing ide devices: hda hdb > > Power down. > > > > or something like that. And then the computer hangs, > > and I can just press the restart button. Rebooting > > works (except a few occasional hangs on "Unmounting > > file systems", but that doesn't bother me much). > > Is there something wrong with the OS? Or is it > > something to do with the BIOS or the ATX supply? > > You need to configure APM, Advanced Power Management, but some > hardware is unable to do that. If this doesn't work, try booting the kernel with "acpi=on" for ACPI support. Regards, Andreas
