On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Andreas Mueller wrote: > 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. > Same problem here. Behaviour: Flushing ide devices: hda hdb Power down (Harddisks go down but computer is still running). Motherboard is an Epox 8KRA2+ with latest FC1. Also tried acpi=on. Same thing. Any ideas? Ciao, Gerhard
