Shutdown problems with 7.2
Hello, I am running SuSE 7.2 on an iwill kk266 board (with an Athlon 1.333) -- the sytem runs quite nicely but I have one odd problem: when I power the sytem down it does not turn the power off -- the system runs through all the shutdown scripts and halts, but will not power off. Is this related to a setting within SuSE or is this perhaps related to a BIOS setting? On a related note, one of my other systems was running win98 -- when I shutdown it would power off automatically. I upgraded the system to win2k and now it does not automatically power off either. Any suggestions? Thanks, Dominic
* Dominic Maraglia <dmaraglia@home.com> [Oct 30. 2001 17:54]:
Hello,
I am running SuSE 7.2 on an iwill kk266 board (with an Athlon 1.333) -- the sytem runs quite nicely but I have one odd problem: when I power the sytem down it does not turn the power off -- the system runs through all the shutdown scripts and halts, but will not power off. Is this related to a setting within SuSE or is this perhaps related to a BIOS setting?
On a related note, one of my other systems was running win98 -- when I shutdown it would power off automatically. I upgraded the system to win2k and now it does not automatically power off either.
Any suggestions?
Make sure that power management is enabled in the BIOS. -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort." -- A. P. J.
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:00:11AM -0800, Dominic Maraglia wrote:
Hello,
I am running SuSE 7.2 on an iwill kk266 board (with an Athlon 1.333) -- the sytem runs quite nicely but I have one odd problem: when I power the sytem down it does not turn the power off -- the system runs through all the shutdown scripts and halts, but will not power off. Is this related to a setting within SuSE or is this perhaps related to a BIOS setting?
On a related note, one of my other systems was running win98 -- when I shutdown it would power off automatically. I upgraded the system to win2k and now it does not automatically power off either.
This has been discussed here recently, but in connection with recent kernels, I think there are problems with APM post 2.4.10 kernels. Dunno the answer...it's a pain though. -- Regards Cliff
Dominic Maraglia wrote:
when I power the sytem down it does not turn the power off -- the system runs through all the shutdown scripts and halts, but will not power off.
What version of the kernel are you using. Some people are having the same trouble with the 2.4.10 in 7.3. It might be a kernel problem. If you hold the power button in for a few seconds it should power off anyway. Cheers, -nick
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:01:55PM +0000, Nick Battle wrote:
Dominic Maraglia wrote:
when I power the sytem down it does not turn the power off -- the system runs through all the shutdown scripts and halts, but will not power off.
What version of the kernel are you using. Some people are having the same trouble with the 2.4.10 in 7.3. It might be a kernel problem. If you hold the power button in for a few seconds it should power off anyway.
Oh really ? lol... Doesn't help much if you have auto stop and start mechanisms in your system for when you are on the other side of town, not unless you have *very* long arms... -- Regards Cliff
Cliff Sarginson wrote:
If you hold the power button in for a few seconds it should power off anyway. Oh really ? lol... Doesn't help much if you have auto stop and start mechanisms in your system for when you are on the other side of town, not unless you have *very* long arms...
True! But when this problem happened to me, just pressing the power button briefly didn't power down. I didn't want to switch off at the wall - though it probably would have been safe. I didn't know that holding the power button in for a few seconds would do the trick, so I mentioned it in case Dominic didn't know either. -nick
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:18:09AM +0000, Nick Battle wrote:
Cliff Sarginson wrote:
If you hold the power button in for a few seconds it should power off anyway. Oh really ? lol... Doesn't help much if you have auto stop and start mechanisms in your system for when you are on the other side of town, not unless you have *very* long arms...
True! But when this problem happened to me, just pressing the power button briefly didn't power down. I didn't want to switch off at the wall - though it probably would have been safe. I didn't know that holding the power button in for a few seconds would do the trick, so I mentioned it in case Dominic didn't know either.
On some bios'es there is an option about this, on this computer for example you can set it so that if you hit the atx power button for less than 4 seconds it can cause a system suspend, for more than 4 it turns the power off...or you can just set it so that just saying "boo!" loudly will power it off as well.. -- Regards Cliff
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 00:18, Nick Battle wrote:
Cliff Sarginson wrote:
If you hold the power button in for a few seconds it should power off anyway.
Oh really ? lol... Doesn't help much if you have auto stop and start mechanisms in your system for when you are on the other side of town, not unless you have *very* long arms...
True! But when this problem happened to me, just pressing the power button briefly didn't power down. I didn't want to switch off at the wall - though it probably would have been safe. I didn't know that holding the power button in for a few seconds would do the trick, so I mentioned it in case Dominic didn't know either.
-nick
Hey Nick, At first I had a similiar problem to the one you described above -- if I briefly pressed the power button, my system would not shut off. I poked around in the BIOS and found an option which was labeled something like "WAIT 4 SECONDS FOR POWERDOWN". I disabled this setting and now my system will shutdown when press the power button. Cheers, Dominic
Hello Nick On Tuesday 30 October 2001 09:01, Nick Battle wrote:
Dominic Maraglia wrote:
when I power the sytem down it does not turn the power off -- the system runs through all the shutdown scripts and halts, but will not power off.
What version of the kernel are you using. Some people are having the same trouble with the 2.4.10 in 7.3. It might be a kernel problem. If you hold the power button in for a few seconds it should power off anyway.
Perhaps my initial post was not clear -- if I press the power off button on my pc case, then the systems shuts off immediately. But that is not my question -- SuSE should send a signal to the system which causes the pc to shut off with a human actually pressing the power button. SuSE 7.2 on my toshiba laptop does this just fine... Cheers, Dominic
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