Re: Notebook power off problem

From: André von Raison (avr_at_ix.heise.de)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:36:12 +0200

Martin Tarenskeen wrote:

> Can anyone help me with the following problem.
> I'm using Fedora Core 2 on a Compaq Armada E500 notebook. I have set
> runlevel 3. I quit from my Gnome desktop back to the text console. Then
> I type "halt" on my commandline and my system shutsdown as expected,
> except that the notebook's power is NOT switched off.
>

Have you ever tried "poweroff"?

HTH

Andre 

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