Stephen Liu wrote: > Poweroff without PC power-off is one of the remaining problem on this > FC5_64 box. The cause is adding "noacpi" on kernel option at boot. > Without adding it PC will hang frequently. I don't know whether > upgrade BIOS will be its solution. OR there is other remedy. > > Any suggestion? TIA Well, there are two ways to do soft power-off. APM doesn't work in SMP mode, so you'd have to turn off one of your cores (you've got a dual core box, IIRC). The other way is APCI. Yes, getting a new BIOS sounds like the best approach. Otherwise, there's a small chance that new kernels will be able to work around whatever bug you're experiencing. I assume that you've moaned to your vendor... James. -- E-mail address: james | For every complex problem, there is a solution @westexe.demon.co.uk | that is simple, neat, and wrong.
