Power-off trivia

[Joseph Kubik]

What type of machine hardware and firmware?
The ability to power off is VERY bios dependant.
-joseph-
On 8/9/05, phil <phillip-l+pbsqP8NtUm29vl6s1fFg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I'm in the process of moving a machine from SuSE 8.1 to Debian (2.6.8
> kernel) and it's generally going well, but one feature that I'd taken
> for granted isn't happening and I have no idea where to look next.
> When I told the old installation to shut down, it did.  With the new
> one, it runs through the shutdown messages, prints out "Power down."
> and sits there.  (I tried substituting 'poweroff' for 'halt' in the KDE
> shutdown settings, but with no change in result.)  Oddly, I hear a kind
> of click (?) from the box as if something was *trying* to power it
> down, but....
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> ........................
> Phillip Mills
> Multi-platform software development
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