laptop power down

alma · 07-11-2006, 12:46 AM

My laptop doesn't power down properly, i have to manually press the power button but then upon restart the filesystem is often not clean.
However when I suspend-resume, the system powers down properly and resumes cleanly. Are there different ways to power down? How can I set the system so that upon shutdown it powers down the same way as with suspend?

Indkoeti · 07-11-2006, 01:04 AM

I have no solution but, try to look in the ubuntu forums for that issue,. I experienced the same problem with my laptop when I was using ubuntu, but not when I used Suse. I also had some difficulties when I installed gnome on gentoo, so I would guess, that it has something to do with the gnome packages or the dependencies of it.

lockpicker · 07-18-2006, 01:31 AM

please also post the actual problem what do you mean by "not powering down properly"?

hakmed · 10-14-2006, 10:28 AM

I'm having the same problem too. I had this problem using slackware 10.1 on my desktop. I was able to solve using the following:

1. Uncommenting the apm line in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
2. Adding the following line to /etc/lilo.conf: append="apm=power-off"

However this did not work for my laptop. I installed Slackware 11.0 on my Acer Aspire 1691 WLMi.

Fluxx · 10-14-2006, 11:53 AM

You can activate acpid if you run Slackware at a laptop. With kernel 2.4.33.3 you take the bareacpi.i, with kernel 2.6.18 you make an initial ramdisk in this way:

Code:

cd /boot
mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.18 -m ac:button:battery:fan:processor:thermal:video

and add a line

Code:

initrd = /boot/initrd.gz

to your /etc/lilo.conf and run

Code:

lilo -v

to make the changes in the bootloader.

This should do the job ...

Fluxx.

hakmed · 10-16-2006, 09:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fluxx

You can activate acpid if you run Slackware at a laptop. With kernel 2.4.33.3 you take the bareacpi.i

Thanks for your reply! I currently run on the 2.4 kernel. What do you mean by "take the bareacpi.i"? More details would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

oozie · 10-16-2006, 10:33 AM

Hi Guys!

Quote:

Originally Posted by hakmed

I currently run on the 2.4 kernel. What do you mean by "take the bareacpi.i"?

'take bareacpi.i' means type "bareacpi.i" and then press [enter], when you are booting from the Slack installation CD/DVD or find it's image on the medium and copy it to /boot/vmlinuz.

If you have sata drives, type "bareacpi.i insmod=sata-generic".

Best Regards,
OOZIE

Fluxx · 10-16-2006, 10:41 AM

At a Slackware mirror or at a Slackware cd there are different 2.4.33.3 kernels (the default one is bare.i, there is a bareacpi.i for acpi, there is a sata.i for SATA and more). There are always three files in such a directory (bzImage, System.map.gz and config). These files you copy to your /boot folder

Code:

cp bzImage /boot/vmlinuz
cp System.map.gz /boot/System.map
cp config /boot/config

Then you rerun

Code:

lilo -v

to install the changes to your bootloader.

You may make before copying the new kernel to /boot a backup of your running kernel or just another boot option in your /etc/lilo.conf with the new kernel.

If you have two or more "vmlinuz" in your /boot they must have different names, also the System.maps and configs.

Fluxx.