I was using the 2.4.18 kernel and had managed to compile it so that it switched of the machine when the shutdown process reached its end.
I re-insalled my Slackware 8 system and re-compiled the 2.4.18 Kernel, however I cannot seem to get the permutations back to the way they were during my previous use of the 2.4.18 kernel, and now I cannot get it to shut down my machine, despite some 32 attempts.
I made enquiries at yesterday's meeting at Elmswell, (thank you Rob), and it appears that this problem affects others as well. Mark did give me some information as to how I could overcome this problem, unfortunately I did not write it down, and my latest attempts have yet to produce a kernel which will shut down the Computer at the end of the shutdown process. Any help anyone can offer on this subject will be gratefully received.
John Seago john.seago@dakings.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
information as to how I could overcome this problem, unfortunately I did not write it down, and my latest attempts have yet to produce a kernel which will shut down the Computer at the end of the shutdown process. Any help anyone can offer on this subject will be gratefully received.
Thanks for the prompt. Here are my settings, as promised.
In "processor type and features" x x [ ] Symmetric multi-processing support x x
In "general setup" x x [*] Power Management support x x x x [ ] ACPI support x x x x <*> Advanced Power Management BIOS support x x x x [ ] Ignore USER SUSPEND x x x x [*] Enable PM at boot time x x x x [ ] Make CPU Idle calls when idle x x x x [ ] Enable console blanking using APM x x x x [*] RTC stores time in GMT x x x x [ ] Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls x x x x [*] Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off x x
I think that's all the relevant ones for this. Others may spot things I'm doing wrong...
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, MJ Ray wrote:
John Seago john.seago@dakings.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
information as to how I could overcome this problem, unfortunately I did not write it down, and my latest attempts have yet to produce a kernel which will shut down the Computer at the end of the shutdown process. Any help anyone can offer on this subject will be gratefully received.
I think that's all the relevant ones for this. Others may spot things I'm doing wrong...
Nope, thats all fine, although it is worth pointing out that you will need an ATX style motherboard (well power supply) that supports "soft power" I believe that AT style motherboards will not support power off at shutdown. In other words you will need at least a Pentium II or AMD K6 or greater CPU to do it, although some motherboards for these CPUs may still be an AT format.
Adam
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:33:09 John Seago wrote:
I was using the 2.4.18 kernel and had managed to compile it so that it switched of the machine when the shutdown process reached its end.
I re-insalled my Slackware 8 system and re-compiled the 2.4.18 Kernel, however I cannot seem to get the permutations back to the way they were during my previous use of the 2.4.18 kernel, and now I cannot get it to shut down my machine, despite some 32 attempts.
When I had this problem it was because I had selected the APM kernel features as modules rather than to be linked in to the kernel - when the system comes to turn off the power it has burnt its boats and can't load new modules so the power off failed.
Steve.
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