shutdown / power off

[James McDonald]

Vu Pham wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 22:09 +1000, James McDonald wrote:
>   
>> vu pham wrote:
>>     
>>> I installed F7 to my PC at home. Everything seems fine but the power
>>> off. When I shut it down, it shuts down all the processes and says
>>> "System halted" but it does not power off the system.
>>>
>>> For this same system with Suse 10.2, it powers off the system just fine.
>>>
>>> Do I need some package to do this ? Or do I have to change some
>>> configuration file or recompile the kernel ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Vu
>>>   
>>>       
>> Add poweroff=1 to system.ini
>>
>>     
>
> Yeah, I did that but it didn't help. I also tried some registries
> also. :)
>
> The one in the office powers off just fine, but that does not say
> anything because the hardware of the two systems are not the same.
>
>   

Could be kernel also.

       Note that the default RH7.1 kernel from 
   /usr/src/linux-2.4.2/configs/kernel-2.4.2-i386.config
has
CONFIG_APM=y
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
# CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set
# CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set
# CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set
CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS=y
CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y