David wrote:
R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:29:11 +1000 (EST), Jon Whitear wrote:
I have an SP13000, running Mandrake 10.2 with epia patched 2.6.12.3-epia
kernel.
Whether I run "shutdown -h now" from a console window, or select
Shutdown
from the 'Start Menu', the machine switches to run-mode 0, does all the
usual things, but stops/hangs at Power Down.
Sounds like you don't have ACPI configured in your kernel.
Now THAT'S a good pointer! Thanks. ACPI is included in the kernel but your
post points out to me that I have no idea what, if any, configuration
might be required beyond that....
More time to be wasted........ <font sarcastic> Ohhh goodie! </font
sarcastic>.
This tends to get tiresome. I've now spent well in excess 30 hours on this
project.
Wow. That's over 4 (short) days!!
What dedication ;)
I bet hardly anyone else here has spent _nearly_ *that* much time on
their myth systems!!
I presume that your e-mail client failed to properly mark the portion
beginning 'Wow' on down as being 'font sarcastics'.
Geoff, I think you need to realise that a bunch of people are getting
together using the internet to communicate and they're forming a
community. And, get this, they're not doing it for you :)
Many of them *are* trying to make life better for other people and will
offer to help.
Frankly, whining that it doesn't work for you and is wasting _your_ time
is exceptionally egocentric.
And you are being exceptionally dense and snide in thinking that what
you quote below was a whine or that I was being egocentric. I AM
astounded at the number of difficulties which arise. And how the various
cook--books differ so much AND STILL END UP WORKING. Linux is such a
swamp of different ways to do things, and it is full of
alligators....It's easy to foget that the idea is to make it across the
swamp or to get mythtv running. And you will note that I'm almost there.
New motherboard, new case, new WinTV500 hardware, new distro, new
kernel, patched, new drivers, new modules, new programs.
Only 30 hours. I'm doing pretty well.
THANKS TO THE HELP PROVIDED BY THIS COMMUNITY!
It is astounding how none of the recipes given in the various
how-tos actually correspond with each other, and how there is always at
least one 'make' which will not configure or compile properly....On Monday
mythtv-setup finally launched...but I still have to do other stuff first
it seems, and I'm still not sure that XvMC-whatever is properly running..
I look forward to your extensive write-up (with no make errors and
in-sync with all other HowTos) appearing on the community wiki at
www.mythtv.info
That will demonstrate that you are acting as part of the community and
are adding to as well as just sharing the knowledge you've obtained from
others (at a very reasonable hourly rate I must add)
Please feel free to contact me for assistance getting your writeup
started and suggestions as to how you can make life easier by editing
and supplementing other topics...
Given your pompous holier-than-thou attitude I will NOT be calling upon
you for assistance. Although I WILL be providing comments to the
community. Go play with your house.
David
Oh, and WTF has the linux kernel ACPI capability got to do with Myth?
Well it's marked 'Slightly OT' in the Re line. I was 'calling on the
community' and it appears that I have been given a good answer to
investigate.
_______________________________________________
mythtv-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
