Thanks Lee I will look into this. The Motherboard is an Intel built on the 915 chipset. The built in sound and video card don't work with Mandrake 10.1, so I had to install cards that would work. The sound card is not working either. This is a very good learning experience for me and I hope to learn more at todays InstallFest. Thanks Mike On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 08:03, Lee Einer wrote: > Hi, Mike- > > You would want to start by checking the specs for your PC, or your > motherboard if you built it yourself. FWIW, ACPI is anologous to > Winmodems- it is dumber hardware run by smarter software. In the case of > ACPI, though, it is basic system functions like power down, power > management and cooling which are controlled by ACPI. Although there is > an implementation of ACPI in Linux, computer manufacturers are largely > doing a bad job of adhering to standards, so the ACPI does not always > function. > > Mandrake 10.1 is supposed to automatically detect and configure ACPI, > but in my very limited experience it does not bat a thousand with this. > You can check to see if ACPI is installed but just not working by > looking for a folder called ACPI in your PROC directory. If there is an > ACPI folder and it is populated, you have ACPI running but it is not > talking to your computer. > > You say that it worked once. Perhaps you could also go into the Mandrake > Control Center under "services" and see if ACPI is set to start up at boot. > > Lee > > mike enriquez wrote: > > >This computer also has winxp on it and xp will shut it down. > >I have run Knoppix CD on it and Knoppix will shut it down, but not > >Mandrake 10.1? > >How to check for ACPI under Linux is "Greek" to me. > >Thanks > >Mike > > > > > >On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 06:52, Lee Einer wrote: > > > > > >>Mike- > >> > >>Does your computer use ACPI or APM? The thing of stating "power down " > >>but not actually powering down sounds like the behavior of a Linux > >>system without functional ACPI installed on a computer which uses ACPI. > >> > >>Lee > >> > >>mike enriquez wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>I boot into x-session. > >>>I just clicked on turn off computer in verbose mode. All processes were > >>>perform as [ok]. > >>>The very last line on the verbose mode is "Power Down". > >>>I am assuming that I am to push the power button but this > >>>does not make sense to manually have to hit the power button > >>>in Linux. But what do I know? > >>>I will try the install process you suggested. > >>>Thanks > >>>Mike > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 20:59, Donn Shumway wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Please describe what you mean by 'mandrake will not shutdown the > >>>>computer'. Describe he shutdown process. Are you booting into an > >>>>X-session or to the command line? > >>>> > >>>>2) Installing Firefox and Thunderbird is fairly easy. Start with > >>>>Firefox. Download the latest tar file from the Firefox site (version > >>>>1.01 just came out today and includes some significant bug fixes). The > >>>>file is named firefox-1.0.1.installer.tar.gz. If you are the only > >>>>user, and you want to partake of the internal updater, you can install > >>>>it into your Home directory (run the installer as your user, and > >>>>choose your /home/user directory to install to). If multiple users > >>>>will use it, install into /usr/local or /usr/share as the root user. > >>>> > >>>>copy the tar file to the root directory where you want to extract the > >>>>Firefox installer. > >>>>run the command 'tar -zxvf firefox-1.0.1.installer.tar.gz' > >>>>This will create a directory called 'firefox-installer' and extract > >>>>all the files into their proper directory structure. Once extracted, > >>>>and assuming you want to install into your Home directory, you can run > >>>>the firefox-installer with [assuming you extracted to /usr/local]: > >>>>/usr/local/firefox-installer/firefox-installer > >>>> > >>>>Follow the prompts and enter the destination [ex. /home/foo/firefox] > >>>>directory you want to install in, finish the install. When complete, > >>>>run Firefox with the command: > >>>>'/home/foo/firefox/firefox &' from a shell, or create a desktop Icon > >>>>to run it from. > >>>> > >>>>Thunderbird is similar, but (if I remember correctly, does not contain > >>>>an installer. You merely run it from the directory you extracted to. > >>>> > >>>>Let me know if you need more detail. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:28:59 -0700, mike enriquez > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>I have a dual boot with winxp and mandrake. > >>>>>Issues: > >>>>>1. Mandrake will not shut down the computer. It did it once then it > >>>>>stopped shutting down. > >>>>>2. I tried to install thunderbird and firefox and got nowhere. > >>>>> I have downloaded both apps but I can't get pass the download to > >>>>>install. I am doing something wrong but I can't figure it out. > >>>>>3. I am taking a linux class at Gateway but the class is not at this > >>>>>point of installing apps and drivers. > >>>>>So I need a little kick start tomorrow. > >>>>>Thanks > >>>>>Mike > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>--------------------------------------------------- > >>>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >>>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > >>>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > > > >--------------------------------------------------- > >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss