At 12:37 AM -0700 6/12/07, E. Robert Tisdale wrote: >Nigel Henry wrote: > >> Tony Nelson wrote: >>> E. Robert Tisdale wrote: >>> >Fedora Core 7 does not actually turn off my computer >>> >when I select shutdown. >>> >Fedora Core 4 and 5 would turn off my computer after the system halted. >>> >Can I get Fedora Core 7 to do this as well? >>> >>> Normally, yes. Check the dmesg log for errors detecting ACPI information >>> (or APM if you have a 7 year old computer), >>> as it is ACPI (APM) that does the actual power off. > >Please find attached the relevant part of the dmesg log from my hp pavillion >a730n desktop computer. I don't see anything useful there. If you really want us to do the work of comparing, please provide the entire dmesg output for the working, failing, and "acpi=force" setups, per my other reply. >I also have an older (1998) desktop computer which reports: > > ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP > ACPI: Interpreter disabled > pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled > PCI quirk: region 4000-403f claimed bu PIIX4 ACPI > >Neither machine will poweroff automatically when it shuts down. On that older machine you can't use ACPI, but APM may work on both. Boot with kernel option "acpi=off". >>> BTW, does the poweroff command also fail to turn off the computer? > >poweroff also fails to turn off the computer. ... OK. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
