Re: [Devil-linux-develop] The Poweroff problem

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

On 08/28/2003 04:00:16 PM "Dean Nedelman" wrote:
>I did some checking on the poweroff (or the lack there of) issue that =
I
>am
>having.
>
>o Poweroff is done by a call to the /sbin/halt at system shutdown via
>the
>/etc/init.d/halt command procedure.  Power off is accomplished by usin=
g
>the -p option (which we are using).
>
>o One of the other options to /sbin/halt that we are NOT using and
>probably
>should consider is -h.  It tells the system to spin down the disks and=

>flush
>the disk cache.  (Remember, we are talking about halt and poweroff
>here, not
>reboot).

Good point !

>o A check of the web indicated that I either need the "apm" module to
>load
>(and specify modprobe apm power_off=3D1 or placing apm power_off=3D1 i=
n
>/etc/modules - though that doesn't seem to match our configuration), o=
r

APM is compiled into the kernel, you don't need to load a module.

>to
>specify "apm=3Don apm=3Dpower_off" as part of the boot.  (A good web p=
age on
>that is: http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/APM_Power.html )

That kernel parameter could do the trick !

>o I need APM over ACPI because my motherboard is pre-2000.

We didn't consider using ACPI, it's still not stable enough.

>Unrelated, but I think I know why the lspci command is not working
>properly.
>'man lspci' says that it uses /usr/share/pci.ids (which is where we
>have the
>file).  However, 'lspci -h' (i.e., asking the utility itself) indicate=
s
>that
>the file is /usr/local/share/pci.ids.  So, either the utility was
>compiled
>wrong, or we need to move the file! :-)

We'll check on that.

cya
  Heiko
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