Sad PenguinMonday, November 08, 2004
Powerdown problem
This is probably the most irritating problem at the moment.
When I shut down, I get the "Power down" at the end of the logout script, but then the computer neither shuts itself down automatically nor responds when I press the power button to shut it off manually. To turn it off, I'm having to hit the "reset" button then hit the power button immediately afterwards. Not particularly satisfactory!
dmesg tells me that my BIOS is too old for ACPI to work, and suggests using "acpi=force". However, having tried this it still doesn't work, and when Linux boots up again the original setting as set out in dmesg remains.
When I shut down, I get the "Power down" at the end of the logout script, but then the computer neither shuts itself down automatically nor responds when I press the power button to shut it off manually. To turn it off, I'm having to hit the "reset" button then hit the power button immediately afterwards. Not particularly satisfactory!
dmesg tells me that my BIOS is too old for ACPI to work, and suggests using "acpi=force". However, having tried this it still doesn't work, and when Linux boots up again the original setting as set out in dmesg remains.
