Re: why does no kernel turn off the power ?

Mikko Hyvarinen (morphy@morphy.iki.fi)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:29:08 +0000

Helmut Naughton wrote:
>
> On 14 Jun 99, at 13:59, Christoph Hagedorn wrote:
>
> > 
> > Just one kernel(2.0.36) turned off the power of my pc yet.
> > I compiled "turn power off on shutdown" into the 2.2.9kernel but there's
> > no
> > reaction after using this new kernel and shutdown.
> > Does anybody know why ?
> >
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> What distribution of linux do you use? I have the same problem
> using SuSE 6.1 and i guess the error is somewhere in the
> shutdown process (just guessing). I have a FIC VL-601 mainboard
> and i am using the SuSE kernel 2.2.5, the developer kernel 2.3.6
> and the ac version 2.3.5ac1. Since it does't work in either of them, i
> don't guess it's a kernel problem. Somebody would have noticed.
> But i haven't contacted the folks at SuSE yet, amybe after this is
> resolved...
>
> -Helmut

I am not so sure about this being a distribution problem. My system is a
FIC PA-2012 (VIA VP3 chips, no hardware monitoring features) running a
severely modified RedHat 5.2. With kernel 2.0.36 shutdown -h turns off
the power but no 2.2.x or 2.3.x kernel does. I have not been able to
isolate the point where this feature stopped working on my system but I
think it was somewhere between 2.1.50 and 2.1.80 - a looong time ago.

-Mikko Hyvärinen

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