Re: Getting power off to work in Etch...

On Tuesday 30 October 2007 18:58, Digby Tarvin wrote:
Does anyone know the secret to getting Etch to power down the system
after a halt. I have tried 'apt-get install apmd', but it doesn't
seem to have helped.

I know the hardware can do it, because it worked with the very old
version of Ubuntu I tried before Debian (5.04).

The machine is a Dell Precision 410 with new Etch netinst just done...

Thanks,
DigbyT

Hi Digby. There's a multitude of possible fixes for this one. I've had no
problems with my Debian, Sarge, Etch, and Lenny installs, all on the same
machine, but a Fedora version had shutdown problems on this machine, and
appending the kernel line with acpi=force in /boot/grub/grub.conf fixed it.

I did see another possible fix in the Debian archives, but will have to look
for that.

Nigel.


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