On Friday 24 July 2009 11:39:51 pm Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
Jean-Pierre Abgottspon pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Thursday 23 July 2009 10:02:10 am Martin Jedamzik wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 23. Juli 2009 01:01:21 schrieb Jean-Pierre Abgottspon:
Hello Martin,
- Did manage to check into the boot/grub/menu.lst
- Did find the acpi option already set to acpi=off
- My vmlinuz version reads: ...vmlinuz 2.6.22.5-31-default...
Well... tks for help. It does not help, or did you mean that I enter acpi=force instead of acpi=off ? Bye JPA
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 10:32:25 pm Martin Jedamzik wrote: Hi Jean-Pierre,
did you try the acpi=force option in the grub menu? Just apend to the boot options.
/boot/grub/menu.lst :
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.23-0.1-default root=/dev/disk/by-id ..... acpi=off
Please tell me if that helps.
Cheers, Martin
Am Mittwoch, 22. Juli 2009 18:50:47 schrieb Jean-Pierre Abgottspon:
Hello,
- Newbie, don't knock !!!
- When selecting : 'Turn off computer', all the services seem to go down in due order until 'turn off sound card' included.
- Then nothing... My PC does not get powered off. (I have to pull the plug to put it to sleep).
- I got a HP PC SET A6543/W2216, 4GB CPU, 500 GB HD
- Running on openSuse/Novell 10.3. (Higher versions cannot be mastered by newbies).
- Is there a trick to get my PC powered off in a say 'regular' mode ?
tks for help. JPA
Hello Jean -Pierre,
aaarrrggghhh :-(
You're right, it should have been acpi=force.
Sorry for my mistake.
Besides, if you want to know more about these options, please read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Cheer, Martin
Dear Martin,
- Fine ! I changed it to 'acpi = force'
- Went thru the log off procedure.
- Same procedure... aaaaaargh ! I still had to switch off my PC manually. Thus it does not do what I want. Grrrrr !
My own comments: first degree
A. It seemed to me that the 'menu.list' much resembled like a comment description rather than a file where you modify settings ???
My own comments: second degree
A. I had happily lived with a 'Compac Pro' PC running on OpenSuse for a few years and came to realise that I was lacking bit power to keep going with pictures, movies downloads, uploads and the like.
B. Thus I got myself a new HP PC with 4 G in CPU and 500 G HD in Feb 2009. At the same time I decided to get going and start using my PC for something more than just reading Kmail and browsing with Firefox. Well that's when it started. The first thing I discovered was that apart from a more than remarkable stability (one does not have to go thru 'Alt-Ctrl-Del' every half hour) LINUX was not as magic as it seemed.
C. I had joined Suse by sheer luck and the deep conviction that an OS with a delicately elegant organizational tree: Root, Bin, User, Tmp, etc. would keep myself in a sane psycho condition for the rest of my life.
D. Not so. Together with my new PC, I bought OpenSuse/Novell 11.1. What a nightmare ! Nothing worked ! I could not even set up my communication line which is the ULTRA simple one: Home-user, internal comm-card, modem, plug to the phone line, provider. Simple. I never managed to come to the point where one declares his activation code. Nothing worked ! Fantasmagoric ! There wasn't even a roster to select one's printer from !
E. Straightforward tactics, I reverted to the Suse version 10.3. At the same time I told myself that from now on, in this Suse world, I solve one trouble after the other. Example: 'Turn off computer'. Never had any trouble with it on my earlier Compac. Why tolerate it with my new PC ? See what I went thru:
- Joined the 'Lizards'.
- Martin gives me 2 replies on 'turn off computer'.
- Does not work.
- Take the basic option: stay with Linux. There is a ray of reason which shines out from Scandinavia ! Linux is still the only option in a virtual mad world. 4.a) reload 'midnight commander' which got somehow rubbished off during the 11.1 episode. 4.b) in a more than hesitant manner replace 'acpi=off' by acpi=force 4.c) in the now famous Chinese manner taking a big jump backwards, rather than forward, that is: getting nowhere.
- Get up every morning. Go thru my Linux worshiper's routine: race around the house in circles, stop, bend down to the earth and shout: L-I-N-U-X !!! Come to help !!!
- Sometimes look up the Lizards' mailing list just to see if someday someone unlike you Mart comes up with the correct answer.
Tks Mart. You gave it a good try. Didn't help, but it's a good try anyhow. Wingeing can be a good feel sometimes. JPA
Keep in mind that you have to reboot for the change to take effect, not merely shutdown. Making the change does not change the running kernel.
-- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
Hello Ken, Yes, I did suspect this and went thru a shut down and reboot right after the modification. Tks Ken. It did not work. But I do appreciate your help. JPA -- LINUX SOIGNE VOS BITS !!! BUERSTET IHRE BITS SAUBER MIT LINUX !!! GIVE YOUR BITS A GOOD SHINE WITH LINUX !!! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org