--- Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:31:29PM -0800, Alan Su > scribbled... > > as long as you have the kernel option to "power > off on shutdown" > > selected, it should do the right thing. if the > screen is black, it > > sounds like it has. is the fan still spinning? > is the disk still > > spinning? are you sure the green light isn't > normal (if you have > > mains power plugged in, perhaps)? > > The green LED is the power indicator, the AC > indicator is different. As far > as I can tell things are spinning down, but it seems > more like an extreme > sleep mode to me. If I hold the power button for six > seconds, it turns off > (which is how it's supposed to turn off). But I know > it can be software > controlled, because windoze does it. > > Incidentally...where is the "power off on shutdown" > option? On my desktop > boxes I just enable APM Bios Support, and it powers > down, on the notebook I > have far more than that enabled.
On my Pavilion n5450 in order for me to get it to shutdown with shutdown -h now I had added to lilo.conf append="apm=on" and I also added to /etc/modules 'apm' . That shuts down my system completely. Don __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com
