Power-off

[Wolfgang]

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 01:25, yavorsky gaetan wrote:
> 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 :
> 
> >On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 00:37, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Tuesday 16 December 2003 02:14, Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Make sure APM is running. ACPI doesn't seem to be fully functional from what
> >>>I've read.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Seems OK to me.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>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.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I don't have any Server Settings menu item under System Settings.
> >>Do most people?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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

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