Power-off

yavorsky gaetan gaetan.yavorsky at easy-france.com
Wed Dec 17 14:25:47 UTC 2003


Wolfgang a écrit :

>On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 01:25, yavorsky gaetan wrote:
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>>Hello all,
>>I have the same problem with RH9 & FC1.
>>I am running a P4 with Asus P4P800.
>>Due to hyper threading, 2 CPUs are detected, and the SMP kernel is used.
>>Looking at the messages during boot time ( or with dmesg command ),
>>I can see that APM is not safe in SMP mode and, by this fact, is disabled.
>>Seems to be a good reason not to power off.
>>
>>Bye
>>Gaetan.
>>
>>Wolfgang a écrit :
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>>>On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 00:37, Timothy Murphy wrote:
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>>>>On Tuesday 16 December 2003 02:14, Wolfgang Gill wrote:
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>>>>>Make sure APM is running. ACPI doesn't seem to be fully functional from what
>>>>>I've read.
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>>>>Seems OK to me.
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>>>>>If you a running KDE like I am, then you can check to see if it's enabled
>>>>>by going into System Settings-->Server Settings-->Services. Make sure APM
>>>>>is ticked and save the settings.
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>>>>I don't have any Server Settings menu item under System Settings.
>>>>Do most people?
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>>>That's if you have '/usr/bin/redhat-config-services' installed. In all
>>>my installs I do.
>>>
>>>If so, that's another way to enable/disable services.
>>>
>>>Wolf
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>For systems with DUAL CPU's running the SMP kernel, you can add
>'apm=power_off' to the end of the kernel command line in grub. I did
>that and my SMP system powers off completely when I issue the 'poweroff'
>command.
>
>Wolf
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Thanks, it's working now.
Regards
Gaetan.





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