[ltp] R40 APM Standby and Power-Off not working

[Georg Sauthoff]

On Saturday 07 June 2003 14:31, Martin Hermanowski wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 02:23:19PM +0200, Georg Sauthoff wrote:
> > On Saturday 07 June 2003 06:52, Ren=E9 Bastian wrote:
> > > > Another thing is, that the power-off does not work. After shutting
> > > > down all processes, unmounting and so on, the screen goes black, but
> > > > the notebook is still running (looks like standby).

> > > > Perhaps someone has an idea?

> > > as root : shutdown -h now

> > How else should you initiate a system shutdown?

> > My problem is, that after the shutdown is complete, the system does not
> > power-off (like this is usual the case on ATX systems). Instead of this,
> > the screen goes black and the notebook is still on power (I have to pre=
ss
> > the power-off button for 3 seconds to turn it off).

> Are you sure that apm in enabled?

Yes, of course, I posted the apm options, which are enabled, in my first ma=
il.

A "dmesg|grep -i apm" gives following output:
IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
Kernel command line: root=3D/dev/hda5 apm=3Don acpi=3Doff
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
ACPI: APM is already active, exiting
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [apm] [pnp]

GS