Am So, den 08.02.2004 schrieb Andreas Mueller um 19:55: > 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 Yes, either using ACPI and passing the kernel the parameter acpi=on in grub.conf or lilo.conf or without ACPI just using APM using the kernel option apm=power-off. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl Sirendipity 00:48:13 up 3:30, 7 users, 0.14, 0.35, 0.26 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ]