On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:32:14 -0500, Efthym <efthym gmx net> wrote:
why turn it off if it was working ...and now its not ?
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:36:25 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay <balay fastmail
fm>
wrote:
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 14:15:48 -0500, Efthym <efthym gmx net> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > I am running FC2 on an IBM T21. I updated from the 2.6.8-1.521 to
>> > 2.6.9-1.6.FC2 kernel. Now the computer doesn't shutdown and stays
at
>> the
>> > "system halted". This used to work with the 2.6.8. I still haven't
>> tried
>> > suspending which again used to work fine.
>> > Has something changed in the new kernel ?
>> >
>>
>> Seem that something has changed in 2.6.9 because it is not a problem
in
>> 2.6.8
>> Because I can't poweroff the machine even the faq or other option
>> sugguested apm=off acpi=off.... etc.
>
> Why use 'apm=off?. I use 'acpi=off' (i.e apm=on) - and no problems
> with shutdown on a T40/FC3. But things could be different on T21/FC2.
>
> Satish
It is fail to power off the machine.