From: John Allman (allmanj at domain houseofireland.com)
Date: Thu 26 Sep 2002 - 10:28:03 IST
Kenn Humborg wrote:
>>On a related note - and you may know the answer to this - when i halt my
>>system it doesn't automatically switch off. I'm pretty sure it's
>>supported by my hardware - this is a brand spanking new msi motherboard
>>(kt3 ultra2). I'm thinking maybe, because the old hardware wouldn't
>>support it, the shutdown scripts dont have a call to actually switch the
>>computer off in them (i could be way off here). Any ideas about where to
>>look and how to put it in?
>>
>>
>
>Did you try using the "poweroff" command, rather than "halt"?
>
>Later,
>Kenn
>
tried that just there when i got your mail but it made no difference. I
saw the same behaviour. It goes through the whole shutdown sequence then
gets to System Halted
Power down.
I'm pretty sure it should just be able to switch off but have no idea
where to look:(
John
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