had the same problem with my laptop, found out that i didnt compile in some part of APM (when i get home ill let you know which part) speaking of laptops: my HDD crapped out on me... does anybody here have a 2.5" HDD that he/she is willing to part with? (say around 2.5 gigs?) -munir > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 09:38:31 -0400 > From: Paul Rech <rechpj at earthlink.net> > To: "tclug-list at mn-linux.org" > <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Subject: [TCLUG] puzzler > Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > I installed redhat 7.1 on a machine last weekend and > now I can't power > off with the on/off button. > > I had redhat 6.2 on the same machine for at least a > year without > trouble. > > Now when I do a shutdown, the on/off button causes > the keyboard lights > to flash but nothing else. > > I have to pull the power cord. > > CTRL-ALT-DEL does nothing, also. > > The reset button does reboot the machine. > And shutdown -r now, works also. > > I dropped out of x-windows and did the shutdown > myself, with same > affect. > > Power management is off in the BIOS. > > I get all the normal shutdown messages: > > halting system > stopping all md devices > power down > > This is a hand built machine with a ASUS dual > celeron 500 mobo (forgot > the model). > It reports the 2.4.2-2smp kernel. > I did not rebuild the kernel. > Nothing remarkable in the machine, just a SCSI CDROM > and two 30GB IDE's. > > Seems fine other than this one problem, so far. > > And Win98 powers down fine. > Even turns off the machine. > > > Any ideas? > > I'd like to keep redhat on one machine, so switching > to Mandrake or > Debian is a last resort. > Those two run fine on all my other boxes, I might > add. ===== -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT GIT dpu- s:- a19 C++ UL P+ L+(++) E--- W+ N+ w(--) K? O-- M- V- PS+ PE-(--) Y-- PGP-(---) t 5+++ X R tv-- b+++ D++ DI++ G e+ h+() r- y+ UF++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/