Powering Off

[Nick Davey]

Moniz Family wrote:

>I installed Mandrake 8.2 a while back on my sister PC, which is now dual
>boot while they're weaning themselves off of windows. I remember during
>the install keeping only the packages I thought they'd need and after
>the install removing a bunch of servers I didn't think were necessary.
>
>I may have removed too much because the pc won't power off in linux, but
>it does in windows. Does anyone know which package or service does the
>powering off at the end of shutdown? I have tried the commands 'halt',
>'halt -p', 'shutdown -h now', so am thinking a package or service is
>missing.
>
>Thanks.
>
>John.
>
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modprobe acpi, however you might want to check to make sure the stock 
kernel in that distro has acpi compiled in, or at least is available as 
a module.


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