APM/ACPI

[Michael Gargiullo]

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 14:11, Norton Trevisan Roman wrote:
> I installed fedora in my laptop, an acer aspire 1355lc... and now, when I
> want to switch the computer off, it reboots... in other words, it doesn't
> shut down...
> 
> This problem doesn't happen with my XP (I have dual boot)... I think it
> could be due to the APM/ACPI... for I think XP uses ACPI, and my fedora is
> using APM.
> 
> The problem, then, is that when I boot with acpi=on, the booting process
> freezes, at some points (they vary), giving me the same printout: Socket
> status: 30000006, after trying to find some PCI stuff (they also vary)...
> 
> The question then is pretty simple: how can I switch off my computer?
> 
> norton
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Type 

poweroff

or

shutdown -h now