powering down issue?

[Bill Christiansen]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 19:35 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:28:10PM -0500, randy jernigan wrote:
> 
> > 	I've only had Ubuntu running for a few days and am having a wonderful
> > time thus far... until I actually shut the computer down.  It gets to
> > the last line concerning powering down and hangs.  I'm waiting for a
> > reasonable time and just holding the power button down till it dies.
> > I'm not seeing any obvious weirdness in the scrolling messages as
> > everything is closing.... I'm running an old PIII 550 on an Asus 440BX
> > motherboard with 128mb RAM and a WD 8 gig Hard drive- yep I know, hardly
> > cutting edge but it still should auto power down, right?  Thanks for any
> > help.
> 
> Make sure that you are running the latest packages, especially the kernel
> and acpi-support.  There were several fixes in this area recently.
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz
> 
Also possible your motherboard uses apm instead of acpi, try a modprobe
apm in a root console then see if shutdown works. If it does you could
add apm to /etc/modules file.