[lug] ACPI and power off

[Collins Richey]

On 8/26/07, D. Stimits <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:
> I'm looking at a motherboard that supports BIOS setting of ACPI version
> 1, 2, or 3. Is one more appropriate than another for a modern distro,
> e.g., FC7? I'm asking because I'm trying to get a machine to actually
> power down when told to halt, but under all 3 settings, stock kernel for
> FC7, it is still leaving power on. I'm thinking that a long time ago,
> there was a file in /etc/ that could be set to tell it power off and not
> just halt state. Anyone know what is required for power off to work?
>

Don't know about Fedora. All the RHEL4/5 systems poweroff our (fairly
modern) PCs with no problems and no tinkering with any files.

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Collins Richey
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