Re: power off (again)

[Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>]

On Saturday 20 April 2002 09:06 am, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> >>> please cc me, I'm offlist <<<
>
> Am Freitag, 19. April 2002 17:52 schrieb Rob Landley:
> > On Friday 19 April 2002 08:58 am, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> > > Am Donnerstag, 18. April 2002 23:02 schrieb Trever L. Adams:
> > > > Just out of curiosity, have you changed your power off scripts to
> > > > reflect: "halt -p".
> > >
> > > Yes, this is not the problem
> >
> > Just thought I'd give a "me too" response.  The Red Hat 7.2 kernel powers
> > down all three systems I've tried it on (a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, a
> > Toshiba Tecra 8000, and an SIS chipset motherboard).  The 2.4.18 and
> > 2.4.17 kernels do NOT power down any of those systems (It will spins down
> > the hard drive instead, but the system power stays on.  Yes, I'm
> > compiling in the right APM support.  I've tried it both with and without
> > the "use APM bios to power down" switch.)
>
> And I already thought I was the only one having that problem.
>
> Meanwhile Wolfgang Loeffler told me the possibility that power off also
> won't work if you enabled SMP on a uniprocessor machine. It wasn't a
> solution for my machine as I haven't compiled the kernel with SMP support,
> but maybe it's one for yours.

Nope.  SMP is off.

It might be a configuration thing.  Maybe.  I suppose I could compare the red 
hat and 2.4.18 .config files to see if anything obvious jumps out at me.

But it does suspend just fine.  That's the odd part...

Rob