[lug] ACPI and power off

Collins Richey crichey at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 19:42:03 MDT 2007


On 8/27/07, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't know about Fedora. All the RHEL4/5 systems poweroff our (fairly
> modern) PCs with no problems and no tinkering with any files.
>
> --
> Collins Richey
>      If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
>      of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
>

Even Slackware 12.0 translates /sbin/halt into a shutdown followed by
acpi poweroff, and the box does lose power. So, Fedora is sadly
lacking.

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.



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