power off doesn't work

mvc · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 2:07 am Post subject: power off doesn't work

hi,

I have a toshiba laptop which doesn't power off when I do 'halt -p' (or anything else). I've read somewhere that 'halt -p' must be in the halt script inside /etc/init.d. In my gentoo instalation there is a /etc/init.d/halt.sh which doesn't seems to me the place to insert this command.

Should I do something like 'rc-update add halt.sh' ? If not, where/how do I set this?

The apm works fine with this laptop, and the poweroff procedure goes without apparent problems, even displaying 'power off' in the end... but nothing happens.

thanks
mvc

sisyphus · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 2:26 pm Post subject:

Hmm.

Works just fine on my tosh. Did you compile APM into the kernel or as a module? Off the top of my head that's the only thing I can thing *might* be causing your grief.
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mvc · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 2:34 pm Post subject:

APM is compiled in the kernel, and I even recompiled the kernel just to try the 'Use Real Mode APM BIOS call to power off' option, which I read somewhere that would help, but no luck...

thanks
marco

sisyphus · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 4:06 pm Post subject:

What model is it?
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mvc · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 4:13 pm Post subject:

it's a satellite pro 4340.

I don't think it's a hardware problem, because I was running red hat 7.3 before gentoo and it used to work there. I wonder where to configure such things in gentoo...

thanks
marco

mvc · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 4:13 pm Post subject:

it's a satellite pro 4340.

I don't think it's a hardware problem, because I was running red hat 7.3 before gentoo and it used to work there. I wonder where to configure such things in gentoo...

thanks
marco

sisyphus · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 4:20 pm Post subject:

Got a Tec8K myself and haven't had any grief with it not shutting down after halt - very odd but I'll have a look at my scripts when I get home tonight. I'll PM them over to you so you can compare with yours.

Be 4 or 5 hours 'till I get home though. Sorry.
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xr31Daisy · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 5:35 pm Post subject:

What kernel are you using ?
vanilla 2.4.19 was working fine.
vanilla 2.4.20 displayed the power off, but didn't switch off ( and I did try to change my APM kernel settings ).
I went back to gentoo 2.4.19-r10, and the shutdown was fine again.

All this happened on a Dell I8200 laptop. Looking at the linux on dell laptops mailing list, it looks like I'm not the only one with this problem.

My first post on the subject is there :https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=24899
Don't forget to post any solution you might find, I'm interested. :-)

mvc · hi, I'm also using vanilla 2.4.19... marco

hi,

I'm also using vanilla 2.4.19...

marco

CrimsonScythe · Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 1:46 am Post subject:

xr31Daisy: I had this problem on my i8200 with Vanilla sources 2.4.20 too, and the problem disappeared when I installed and run apmd. If you haven't tried it, I hope this can help you. BTW, did you get suspend2ram working with the new nvidia drivers?

--Thomas
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Vancouverite · Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 4:53 am Post subject:

Maybe a silly question, but did you compile in support for ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)? I only have power down problems when I forget to include this.

mvc · Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 12:41 pm Post subject:

Hi,

CrymsonScythe:
A 'ps -A' shows I'm running kapmd, (i'm running kde).
For the nvidia drivers, I don't know if I'm correct, but shouldn't them be used only for nvidia related graphic cards? I have a Savage MMX, and I could be wrong but I don't think this board has anything to do with nvidia.

Vancouverite:
I didn't compile ACPI because it says:
- ACPI is experimental, it is not yet reached the level of funcionality of APM
- If APM and ACPI are both configured wichever is loaded first will be used
So I enabled only APM. Do you have both?

Thanks everybody for helping
Marco

Vancouverite · Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 6:31 pm Post subject:

At first I compiled only APM (all options) and had power down problems, among other things. So I also compiled ACPI (only the first option) and powering down started to work famously. You could compile all options of both APM and ACPI and see what works best by disabling APM with apm=off in your bootloader. Also ACPI has the Toshiba Laptop Extras which I think your model supports (if it's newer than 2001).

Vancouverite · Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 11:05 pm Post subject:

I forgot to add earlier that you can disable ACPI by adding acpi=off to your bootloader.

CrimsonScythe · Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2002 12:30 am Post subject:

I did not know that kde had it's own apmd. Upon investigation, the kapmd was running all along, but I still had to emerge apmd in order for my computer to power down. It's worth a shot, though...
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Qubax · Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 10:54 am Post subject:

can someone explain to me, how apmd can powerdown your box, cause before powering to box of, all daemons are stopped - if i get it right

mvc · Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 10:58 am Post subject:

I think apmd calls the /etc/init.d/halt.sh script and then exists. The script does the rest.

Marco

xr31Daisy · Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 1:16 pm Post subject:

jlg · Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 11:03 pm Post subject:

After a few hours of bitching about the same problem I realised that I had compiled my kernel with Symmetric multi-processing support. Removed that from my kernel and now power off with apm works

apparently apm is not compatible with smp