On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 22:53 -0400, Stanley A. Klein wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:23 -0400, Aaron Konstam > <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ---------------------------- > > > > Message: 6 > > Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:26:17 -0500 > > From: Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: How do I get my disk powered down gracefully on my > > desktop during system shutdown > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Message-ID: <1147872377.2722.1.camel@vulcan> > > Content-Type: text/plain > > > > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 17:18 -0500, sklein@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Under FC5 the shutdown process now gracefully powers down my laptop disk > > > as the last step during shutdown of the laptop. However, this is not > > > happening with my desktop, where the disk does not gracefully power down > > > during shutdown. How do I get the desktop disk to gracefully power down > > > as its last shutdown step? > > > > > > > > > Stan Klein > > I am not sure what you mean. On the desktop exactly what happens when you shutdown? > > Does it power down? What does gracefully power down mean? > > > > > > -- > > > fedora-list mailing list > > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > -- > > Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Gracefully is what the -h option of poweroff appears to do. It shuts > down the drive before shutting down all power. Right now, a shutdown > kills all power, and I can hear the drive spin down after the power goes > off. On my dual-boot laptop, until FC5, I had to reboot into Windows to > get a graceful shutdown. > > Now the question is how to edit the menu to get the dialogue when I do a > non-graphical (run level 3) boot and bring up X by entering startx, > versus doing a run level 5 boot directly into X. It turns out the menus > you get are different and I need to fix it. > > I needed to set up the non-graphical boot because my laptop has an > Nvidia display and they recommend changing the boot to run level 3. > They may recommend that, but I use the nvidia driver on my laptop and boot to runlevel 5 with no problems at all. AFAIK the only time you *must* boot to runlevel 3 when using the nvidia driver is if you are rolling your own by using their installer. It requires that X be shutdown before it will allow the compile/install to proceed. Once the new driver is installed to match your kernel you can boot to runlevel 5 with no problems. > > Stan Klein > >
